English Dictionary

reductive

/ɹɪˈdʌktɪv/

adj

(Scotland law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. / Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.

His reductive argument failed to consider the complexities of the case.

意味（1）

(Scotland law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.

意味（2）

Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.

意味（3）

(chemistry, metallurgy, biology) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.

On the relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals, as demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead.

意味（4）

(now rare, historical) That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.

But then beside the primary and direct sense of the text, the ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning, in which it might be taken.

意味（5）

(now frequently derogatory) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.