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Definition of Reductional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reductional
Literary usage of Reductional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Employ the reductional form of expression, the objection vanishes: but, ...
being in effect precisely the same thing as the reductional, so likewise does ..."
2. A Text-book of Histology: Arranged Upon an Embryological Basis by Frederic Thomas Lewis, Philipp Stöhr (1913)
"Such a division, which eliminates one-half of the chromosomes from the daughter
cell, is known as a reductional division. The other form of chromosome ..."
3. Official aptitude maximized; expense minimized: as shewn in the several by Jeremy Bentham (1830)
"By a reductional bidding understand— an offer, to accept, along with the ...
By a compound bidding understand—a bidding, in which the reductional and the ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"... and with the exception of a few cases it is not possible* to demonstrate
unequivocally a reductional division before fertilization takes place. ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society by American Mathematical Society (1919)
"The author's problem is now one of reductional computation—to express in terms
of these measures of two elements any measure of elements derived from points ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"(5) Inasmuch as univalent chromosomes are separated, the first maturation division
is reductional (Figs. 48-59). ..."
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