English Explanatory Dictionary

reducible

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Capable of being reduced.
  2. Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
  3. Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
  4. Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

reducible more reducible most reducible

Etymology

From reduce + -ible.

Antonyms

irreducible increasable

Derived words

autoreducible bioreducible interreducible Karp-reducible many-one reducible nonreducible one-one reducible reducibility reducibleness reducibly unreducible
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