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Meanings of reducible in English

That can be made smaller in size or intensity.

Capable of being reduced.

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Usage of reducible in English
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Dihydroxylysinonorleucine was the major reducible cross-link of collagen from all the ligaments.
Pubmed
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He enters a zone where play is not reducible to anything else.
The new yorker
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The world in little is not reducible to a microscopic point.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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The question of pre-eminence between the Ancients and Moderns is reducible to another.
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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And that constitutes a source of conflict that is not reducible to economics.
NY Magazine
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Slags containing sulphides are especially apt to retain the more easily reducible metals.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
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Its teaching is not founded on one idea, or reducible to certain formulæ.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated / In Nine Disco...
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Nearly every one of my books has always been reducible to its title.
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 1
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There is no law reducible to print which regulates these affairs.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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Wilderness might be reducible, acre by acre, but wildness is something else again.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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They are not reducible to language, although they are connected to its experience.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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South Africans' relationships with politicians and political parties are not reducible to data-driven decisions.
The Guardian
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But events under the effect hypothesis are causally reducible to the traditional organismic level.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Therefore the moral precepts are not reducible to all the precepts of the decalogue.
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
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Indeed, the heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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But excess of play does not seem reducible to any of the capital vices.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
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