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Reduction vs Dejection - What's the difference?

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Reduction is a related term of dejection.


As nouns the difference between reduction and dejection

is that reduction is reduction while dejection is dejection, defecation.

reduction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act, process, or result of reducing.
  • The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
    • A 5% reduction in robberies
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * elevation * expansion * increase * promotion * (chemistry): oxidation

    Anagrams

    * introduce

    dejection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
  • The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
    • Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.
  • A low condition; weakness; inability.
    • A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
  • (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1855 , year_published= , publisher=Linday & Blakiston , author=Austin Flint , title=Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases , section=First Clinical Report on Continued Fever, Based on an Analysis of Forty-Two Cases citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=u_wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=dejection , page=39 , passage=No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1861 , year_published=2010 , publisher=Applewood Books , author=James Jackson , title=Another Letter to a Young Physician , section=Note I. John Lowell citation , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1921 , year_published=2000 , publisher=B. Jain Publishers , edition=2nd edition , author=Charles Signmund Raue , title=Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment , section=Chapter IX Diseases of the Intestines citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}

    Synonyms

    * (defecation or feces) excrement, bowel movement