plural of vowel reduction

plural of reduction in force

(music) The pattern, as perceived, of tension and relaxation among events in various levels of structure, projected from time-span reduction.

The reduction of one or more tax rates.

(US, business, euphemistic) A layoff.

The operation performed to reduce the volume of breast tissue.

(chemistry) Any reduction reaction that uses magnesium at an elevated temperature; used, for instance, to reduce the silica of diatoms to silicon whilst retaining the complex shapes.

(chemistry) Any reduction reaction that employs carbon at high temperatures

(philosophy) In the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and his followers, a philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena independently of any considerations of the existence of those objects and without the influence of inferential knowledge.

(biology, genetics, cytology) the first of the two divisions of meiosis, a type of cell division. / (biology, genetics, cytology) meiosis as a whole, a type of cell division.