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Reduction
v. t.
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The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
Reduction
v. t.
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The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
Reduction
v. t.
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The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
Reduction
v. t.
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The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Reductive
a.
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Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.
Reductive
n.
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A reductive agent.
Reductively
adv.
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By reduction; by consequence.
Reduit
n.
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A central or retired work within any other work.
Redundance
n.
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Alt. of Redundancy
Redundancy
n.
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The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
Redundancy
n.
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That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.
Redundancy
n.
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Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Redundant
a.
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Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Redundant
a.
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Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Redundantly
adv.
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In a refundant manner.
Reduplicate
a.
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Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
Reduplicate
a.
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Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.
Reduplicate
v. t.
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To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Reduplicate
v. t.
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To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
Reduplication
n.
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The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
Reduplication
n.
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A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
Reduplication
n.
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The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Reduplicative
a.
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Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.
Reduvid
n.
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Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
Redwing
n.
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A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
Redwithe
n.
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A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
Redwood
n.
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A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
Redwood
n.
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An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
Ree
n.
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See Rei.
Ree
v. t.
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To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.