reducible

[US]/rɪˈdjuːsəbl/
[UK]/rɪˈduːsəbl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. able to be reduced, able to be simplified, able to be made smaller, able to be made less

Phrases & Collocations

reducible fraction

Example Sentences

Shakespeare's major soliloquies are not reducible to categories.

A water-reducible, opaque, matte-finish paint in which an albuminous or colloidal medium (as egg yolk) is employed as a vehicle instead of oil or varnish.

The problem is reducible to a few key factors.

The complex issue is not easily reducible to a simple solution.

The data is reducible to a single graph.

The theory is reducible to a set of basic principles.

The problem seems reducible to a misunderstanding.

The process is reducible to a series of steps.

The equation is reducible to a simpler form.

The task is reducible to a few key actions.

The concept is reducible to a basic idea.

The problem is reducible to a matter of communication.

Real-world Examples

Now, it turns out this is actually based on this set of Penrose tiles, which are reducible to these shapes.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

To render such an establishment perfectly reasonable, with the circumstance of being reducible to strict rule and method, two other circumstances ought to concur.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

A dynamic theory would begin by assuming that all history, terrestrial or cosmic, mechanical or intellectual, would be reducible to this formula if we knew the facts.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 2)

When a navigable cut or canal has been once made, the management of it becomes quite simple and easy, and it is reducible to strict rule and method.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

It is clear that an emotion is essentially complex, and we have to inquire whether it ever contains any non-physiological material not reducible to sensations and images and their relations.

Source: Analysis of the Heart (Part 2)

To this analysis — if one understood it right — all matter whatever was reducible, and the only difference of opinion in science regarded the doubt whether a still deeper analysis would reduce the atom of gas to pure motion.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 2)

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