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Definition of Reductive
1. Adjective. Characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment. "Their views of life were reductive and depreciatory"
Definition of Reductive
1. a. Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.
Definition of Reductive
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or causing physical reduction. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to reductionism or reductivism. ¹
3. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or causing figurative reduction; belittling, disparaging, ridiculing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reductive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reductive
Literary usage of Reductive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Topics in the Geometric Theory of Integrable Mechanical Systems by Robert Hermann (1984)
"So far, we have been working with an arbitrary Lie algebra G. For a reductive
Lie algebra, ie, one for which G and Gd are naturally isomorphic, the formulas ..."
2. A Report to the Navy Department of the United States, on American Coals by Walter Rogers Johnson (1844)
"Relative heating powers of different bituminous coals, as tested in chain cable,
compared with their evaporative powers. making Ow </je relative reductive ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"Of the reduction reductive. TH is is necessary when a decree has been erroneously
or improperly obtained. An extract of the proceedings of a court of ..."
4. Dioxin Treatment Technologies by Florence Poillon (1994)
"Figure 3-3—Schematic Flow Diagram of the Thermal Gas-Phase reductive Dechlorination
Process Hydrogen and recirculation gas Gas-fired heat exchanger SOURCE: ..."
5. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1844)
"The reductive conclusions in such an action were not intended, and had not the
... Now Sir John Sinclair was not the vassal, and therefore the reductive and ..."
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