Reduction vs Refund - What's the difference?
reduction | refund |
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.
To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
(obsolete) To supply again with funds.
(obsolete, rare) To pour back.
An amount of money returned.
As nouns the difference between reduction and refund
is that reduction is the act, process, or result of reducing while refund is an amount of money returned.As a verb refund is
to return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.reduction
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Noun
(en noun)- A 5% reduction in robberies
Antonyms
* elevation * expansion * increase * promotion * (chemistry): oxidationAnagrams
* introducerefund
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Verb
(en verb)- A governor, that had pillaged the people, was sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. — L'Estrange.
- If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we'll refund you the difference.
- to refund a railroad loan
- Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object. — Ray.
Noun
(en noun)- If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a refund.