reducible
/rɪˈdjuːsɪb(ə)l
/adjective
1 [predicative] (Of a subject or problem) capable of being simplified in presentation or analysis: Shakespeare’s major soliloquies are not reducible to categories...
- But at the same time, these issues are not reducible to the anti-capitalist struggle.
- Ethics, one might say, enshrines the principle that subjectivity is not reducible to objective analysis.
- Second, unlike the Left, green politics are not based on class and their analyses are not reducible to class.
2 Mathematics (Of a polynomial) able to be factorized into two or more polynomials of lower degree.This fraction too can be reduced, and perhaps the new one will be reducible too.
2.1(Of a group) expressible as the direct product of two of its subgroups.
Derivatives
reducibility
- Schur was also interested in reducibility, location of roots and the construction of the Galois group of classes of polynomials such as Laguerre and Hermite polynomials.
- Further work by G D Birkhoff introduced the concept of reducibility (defined above) on which most later work rested.
- This reading is bolstered by Alexander's discussion of the reducibility of chemistry to physics, on which he is neutral.
Rhymes
- Mercian
- merciful
- mercifully
- mercifulness
- merciless
- mercilessly
- mercilessness
- Merckani
- Merckx, Eddy
- Mercosur
- Mercouri, Melina
- mercurate
- mercurated
- mercuration
- Mercurey
- mercurial
- mercurialise
- mercurialism
- Mercurialist
- mercuriality
- mercurialize
- mercurially
- mercurialness
- mercurial ointment
- mercurial pendulum