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reducible

/ri-doo-suh-buhl, -dyoo-/US // rɪˈdu sə bəl, -ˈdyu- //

可还原性,可还原的,可还原,可还原性的

Definitions

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

Examples

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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