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reduction

n.

The process of making smaller
decrease, contraction, diminution, lowering, lessening, shortening, abatement, discount, reducing, conversion, deoxidation, refinement, attenuation, atrophy, condensation, loss, decline, compression, depression, subtraction, retrenchment, downsizing, cutback, shrinkage, miniaturization, concision, constriction, modification, minimization, curtailment, abbreviation, abridgment, decrescence, syncope, ellipsis, elision, assuagement, modulation, moderation, mitigation, remission, decrement.
Antonyms increase*, increasing, enlargement.
An amount that constitutes reduction, sense 1
decrease, rebate, cut; see discount.

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Another word for reduction

noun

The act or process of decreasing:
abatement, curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, decrement, diminishment, diminution, drain, slash, slowdown, taper. See increase
The act or an instance of demoting:
degradation, demotion. See rise
A lowering in price or value:
depreciation, devaluation, markdown, write-down. See increase, money
An amount deducted:
abatement, deduction, discount, rebate. See increase

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The result is, on the one hand, a clearing away of much fantastic phylogeny, on the other, an enormous reduction of the supposed gaps between groups.
As prepared by the reduction of the oxide it is a grey powder.
Metallic cobalt may be obtained by reduction of the oxide or chloride in a current of hydrogen at a red heat, or by heating the oxalate, under a layer of powdered glass.
A reduction has been made in the charges for trunk calls at night, and calls for single periods of three minutes are allowed at half the ordinary rates between 7 p.m.
At the end of 1907 Italy was among the few Countries that had not adopted the reduction of postage sanctioned at the Postal Union congress, held in Rome in 1906, by which the rates became 23/4d.

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