reducible

[ ri-doo-suh-buhl, -dyoo- ]

adjective

1. capable of being reduced.
2. Mathematics.
   1. of or relating to a polynomial that can be factored into the product of polynomials, each of lower degree.
   2. of or relating to a group that can be written as the direct product of two of its subgroups.
   3. of or relating to a set whose set of accumulation points is countable.

Other Words From

• re·duci·bili·ty re·duci·ble·ness noun
• re·duci·bly adverb
• nonre·duci·bili·ty noun
• nonre·duci·ble adjective
• nonre·duci·bly adverb
• unre·duci·ble adjective
• unre·duci·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of reducible¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; reduce, -ible

Example Sentences

Like the city it laments and loves, the 2018 spoken-word musical “Blindspotting” isn’t reducible to just one thing.

From Washington Post

The philosopher David Chalmers has speculated that consciousness is a fundamental property of nature that’s not reducible to any laws of nature.

From Nautilus

There is a backlash to this idea that everything in the mind is reducible to brain science.

From Nautilus

If the book were reducible to a thesis, it might be the simple claim that some things exceed our capacity for comprehension.

From The Daily Beast

Variously described by various writers, the actual circumstance seems reducible to this.

From Project Gutenberg

They are very flexible, and easily reducible into a flocculent mass.

From Project Gutenberg

The canons of pecuniary decency are reducible for the present purpose to the principles of waste, futility, and ferocity.

From Project Gutenberg

According to us, there are four classes of duties, and these four classes are not reducible the one to the other.

From Project Gutenberg

Slags containing sulphides are especially apt to retain the more easily reducible metals.

From Project Gutenberg