Reduction vs Subtraction - What's the difference?
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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.
(arithmetic) (uncountable ) The process of subtracting a number from another.
(arithmetic) (countable ) A calculation involving subtracting.
The removal of something.
As nouns the difference between reduction and subtraction
is that reduction is the act, process, or result of reducing while subtraction is (uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.reduction
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Noun
(en noun)- A 5% reduction in robberies
Antonyms
* elevation * expansion * increase * promotion * (chemistry): oxidationAnagrams
* introducesubtraction
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Noun
- The teacher has set us ten subtractions to do by tomorrow.
- The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.