Reducing vs Reduction - What's the difference?
reducing | reduction |
The act, process, or result of reducing.
The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
(chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
(mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
(computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
(philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
(medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
In chemistry terms the difference between reducing and reduction
is that reducing is that causes reduction while reduction is a reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.As a verb reducing
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective reducing
is that causes reduction.As a noun reduction is
the act, process, or result of reducing.reduction
English
Noun
(en noun)- A 5% reduction in robberies