irreducible

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Not able to be reduced or lessened.
Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x² + 1).
Whose numerator and denominator share no common factor greater than 1.
Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
Whose only divisors are units and associates.
Inexpressible as the union of two proper algebraic subvarieties.
Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
Impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation.

noun

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irreducible irreducibles

From ir- + reducible.

reducible unincreasable

irreducibility irreducible complexity irreducibleness irreducibly irrep

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