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Reduced vs Reducible - What's the difference?

reduced | reducible |

As adjectives the difference between reduced and reducible

is that reduced is made smaller or less, resulting from reduction while reducible is capable of being reduced.

As a verb reduced

is past tense of reduce.

reduced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reduce)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
  • Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price
  • In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.
    • chicken served with a reduced red wine sauce.

    reducible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being reduced.
  • (mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x^2-1.
  • (mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
  • (topology, of a manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.

    • Antonyms

    * irreducible * increasable

    Derived terms

    * many-one reducible * one-one reducible * reducibility