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Noun:
- 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.
- music An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
- phenomenology A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
- The act, process, or result of reducing.
- The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
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