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Webster 1913 Edition


Reducible

Re-du′ci-ble

(-s?-b’ll)
,
Adj.
Capable of being reduced.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reducible

REDU'CIBLE

,
Adj.
That may be reduced.
All the parts of painting are reducible into these mentioned by the author.

Definition 2024


reducible

reducible

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Adjective

reducible (comparative more reducible, superlative most reducible)

  1. Capable of being reduced.
  2. (mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as .
  3. (mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
  4. (topology, of a manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.

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