reduction (iou) and Methotrexate lpf (health)

reduction (iou)

reduction noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French reduction or Latin reductio(n-), from reduct-: see REDUCT, -ION.]
The action of bringing a person or thing back to or from a state, condition, place, etc. LME-M18.
Surgery. The restoration of a dislocated part to its normal position; the action of reducing a displacement, etc. LME.
a. Conquest or subjugation of a place, esp. a town or fortress. Now rare. LME.
b. Hist. [Spanish reduccion.] A village or colony of S. American Indians converted and governed by the Jesuits. E18.
Scots Law. The court action of annulling a deed, decree, etc. L15.
a. Math. The process of converting an amount from one denomination to a smaller one, or of bringing down a fraction to its lowest terms. M16.
b. Astronomy. The correction of observations by allowing for parallax, refraction, etc. E18.
c. Geometry. The process of reducing a curve etc. to a straight line. Now rare or obsolete. L18.
d. The process of explaining behaviour, mental activity, etc., by reducing it to its component factors or to a simpler form. E20.
F. Fergusson Freud's reduction of the play (Oedipus) to the concepts of his psychology.
e. Computing. The transformation of data into a simpler form. M20.
Logic. The process of reducing a syllogism to another form, esp. by expressing it in one of the moods of the first figure. Also, the process of establishing the validity of a syllogism by showing that the contradictory of its conclusion is inconsistent with its premisses. M16.
Conversion to or into a certain state, form, etc. E17.
a. The action or process of reducing a substance to another (usu. simpler) form, esp. by a chemical process; spec. in Chemistry (opp. OXIDATION), the loss or removal of oxygen from, or the addition of hydrogen to, an atom or molecule; a decrease in the proportion of electronegative constituents in a molecule or compound; the lowering of the oxidation number of an atom. M17.
b. The conversion of ore or oxide into metal; smelting. L18.
c. In phenomenology, the process of reducing an object of consciousness or an idea to its pure essence for analysis as a logical structure by elimination of all that which is extraneous, contingent, or based on prior assumptions. E20.
a. Diminution, lessening, cutting down; the amount by which something is reduced. L17.
Manchester Examiner A reduction of ten per cent in..wages. N. F. Dixon Acquisition of knowledge is synonymous with reduction of ignorance.
b. The action or process of making a copy on a smaller scale. Also, such a copy; spec. the ratio of a reduced copy or image to the original in Photography, microphotography, etc. E18.
c. Photography. Diminution of the density of a print or negative. L19.
d. Music. (An) arrangement of an orchestral score for a smaller number of instruments, esp. for piano. L19.
B. Mason A..piano reduction of 'The Shrovetide Fair' from Petrouchka.
e. Cytology. The halving of the number of chromosomes per cell that occurs at one of the two anaphases of meiosis. Cf. POSTREDUCTION, PREREDUCTION. L19.
f. Phonetics. Weakening of a vowel; substitution of a sound which requires less muscular effort to articulate. E20.
g. A means of curing drug Addiction by decreasing or limiting usage. E20.
Military. Demotion to a lower rank. E19.
Comb.: reduction division Cytology the meiotic cell division during which reduction occurs; reduction gear Engineering a system of gear wheels in which the driven shaft rotates more slowly than the driving shaft; reduction-improbation Scots Law suggestion that the deed or Other document in question is not genuine; reduction negative, reduction print Photography a negative or print made from a larger original; reduction sentence Logic a sentence giving conditions for the use of a concept less strict than a definition.
reductional adjective characterized by reduction L17.
reductionally adverb E20.

Methotrexate lpf (health)

Methotrexate lpf is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in Other countries. Active ingredient(s): methotrexate sodium.

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