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R0107400 (rĭ-do͞os′, -dyo͞os′)v. re·duced, re·duc·ing, re·duc·es v.tr.1. To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish. See Synonyms at decrease.2. To bring to a humbler, weaker, difficult, or forced state or condition; especially:a. To gain control of; subject or conquer: "a design to reduce them under absolute despotism" (Declaration of Independence).b. To subject to destruction: Enemy bombers reduced the city to rubble.c. To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness: disease that reduced the patient to emaciation; teasing that reduced the child to tears.d. To compel to desperate acts: The Depression reduced many to begging on street corners.e. To lower in rank or grade; demote.3. To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.4. To lower the price of: The store has drastically reduced winter coats.5. To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.6. To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify: reduced her ideas to a collection of maxims.7. To turn into powder; pulverize.8. Chemistry a. To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons.b. To remove oxygen from (a compound).c. To add hydrogen to (a compound).d. To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt.9. Mathematics To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value.10. Medicine To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position.11. Linguistics To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa.v.intr.1. To become diminished.2. To lose weight, as by dieting.3. Biology To undergo meiosis.

[Middle English reducen, to bring back, from Old French reducier, from Latin redūcere : re-, re- + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]

re·duc′er n.re·duc′i·bil′i·ty n.re·duc′i·ble adj.re·duc′i·bly adv.

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Noun	1.	reducing - any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agentreductionchemical reaction, reaction - (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"
	2.	reducing - loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"loss - gradual decline in amount or activity; "weight loss"; "a serious loss of business"

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Reducing

(1) In metalworking, a process for drawing round billets and seamless and welded pipe in such a way as to reduce the cross section through a uniform circumferential compression. The process can be carried out on rotary forging machines or reducing mills, and the billets can be either preheated or drawn cold.

The reducing process has significantly broadened the variety of billets and pipes that can be rolled and markedly increased the productivity of the equipment. The full extent to which pipe can be reduced in the stands of a reducing mill (from nine to 26 stands) may reach 70 percent. Depending on the mode of reducing, the thickness of the wall of the pipe may increase, decrease, or remain unchanged. The maximum speed in reducing is 7–10 m/sec. The compression of continuously cast slabs to reduce the width, which is usually carried out on special reducing units, is also called reducing.

(2) In heat engineering, a reduction in the pressure of a vapor or gas through the use of, for example, reducing valves and reducers.

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noun any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen)

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noun loss of excess weight (as by dieting)

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