weight loss

reduction (chemistry) – chemical reaction in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state) changed.

reduction (philosophy) – the process by which one object, property, concept, theory, etc., is shown to be entirely dispensable in favor of another.

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reduced instruction set computer – a CPU design philosophy that favors an instruction set reduced both in size and complexity of addressing modes, in order to enable easier implementation, greater instruction level parallelism, and more efficient compilers.

harm reduction – a philosophy of public health, intended to be a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain potentially dangerous lifestyle choices.

immigration reduction

waste minimisation

relation reduction – the extent to which a given relation is determined by an indexed family or a sequence of other relations, called the relation dataset.

Reduced row echelon form – a certain reduced row echelon form of a matrix which completely and uniquely determines its row space

noise reduction – acoustic or signal processing

poverty reduction

reduction (recursion theory) – given sets A and B of natural numbers, is it possible to effectively convert a method for deciding membership in B into a method for deciding membership in A?

reduction of the structure group – for a <math>G</math>-bundle <math>B</math> and a map <math>H \to G</math> an <math>H</math>-bundle <math>B_H</math> such that the pushout <math>B_H \times_H G</math> is isomorphic to <math>B</math>.

urea reduction ratio – (URR), is a dimensionless number used to quantify hemodialysis treatment adequacy.

reduction (complexity) – a transformation of one problem into another problem.

Reduce (higher-order function) – in functional programming, a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure in some order and build up a return value.

breast reduction –

relaxed pronunciation – when the syllables of common words are slurred together.

lithic reduction – in Stone Age toolmaking, to detach lithic flakes from a lump of tool stone

lattice reduction – given an integer lattice basis as input, to find a basis with short, nearly orthogonal vectors.

paperwork reduction – reducing red tape

dimension reduction – is the process of reducing the number of random variables under consideration

definite article reduction – use of vowel-less forms of the definite article in northern dialects of English English,

Indian Reductions – settlements in Spanish America intended to assimilate Indians

jaw reduction –

accent reduction – a systematic approach to reducing one's foreign accent.

reduction of order – a technique for solving second-order ordinary differential equations.

graph reduction – an efficient version of non-strict evaluation

absolute risk reduction – the decrease in risk of a given activity or treatment in relation to a control activity or treatment.

selective reduction – (or fetal reduction) is the practice of reducing the number of fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy

reduction to practice – in United States patent law, the embodiment of the concept of an invention.

reduction in rank – military law

reduced product – a construction that generalizes both direct product and ultraproduct

variance reduction – a procedure used to increase the precision of the estimates that can be obtained for a given number of iterations.

reduced mass – the "effective" inertial mass appearing in the two-body problem of Newtonian mechanics

reduction (mathematics) – the rewriting of an expression into a simpler form

eidetic reduction – a technique in the study of essences in phenomenology whose goal is to identify the basic components of phenomena

reduction criterion – in quantum information theory, a necessary condtion a mixed state must satisfy in order for it to be separable.

partial order reduction – a technique for reducing the size of the state-space to be searched by a model checking algorithm.

Bit Rate Reduction – an audio compression method

reduced homology – a minor modification made to homology theory in algebraic topology, designed to make a point have all its homology groups zero.

relative risk reduction – the absolute risk reduction by the control event rate.

vowel reduction – a type of variation in the acoustic quality of vowels related to changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word; or changes in the number of vowels during the evolution of a language

L-reduction – a transformation of optimization problems which keeps the approximability features.

Reduce (computer algebra system) – a general-purpose computer algebra system geared towards applications in physics.

strength reduction – a compiler optimization where a function of some systematically changing variable is calculated more efficiently by using previous values of the function.

ventricular reduction – is a type of operation in cardiac surgery

reduction (orthopedic surgery) – a medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

piano reduction – sheet music for the piano that was once music for other instruments that was reduced to its most basic components within a two line staff for piano.

reduction drive – a mechanical device to shift rotational speed.

reduced form – in statistics, an equation which relates the endogenous variable X to all the available exogenous variables, both those included in the regression of interest (W) and the instruments (Z).

reduction (cooking) – the process of thickening or intensifying the flavor of a liquid mixture such as a soup, sauce, wine, or juice by evaporation

reduction (Sweden) – return to the Crown of fiefs that had been granted to the Swedish nobility

reduced residue system – a set of φ(n) integers such that each integer is relatively prime to n and no two are congruent modulo n.

intertheoretic reduction – in philosophy of science, one theory makes predictions that perfectly or almost perfectly match the predictions of a second theory

ego reduction – predicated on the use of Sigmund Freud's concept of the ego

reduced ring – a ring with no non-zero nilpotent elements.

reduced gas – a gas with a low oxidation number

reduced temperature – of a fluid means the actual temperature, divided by its critical temperature.