reductive

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.
2. sıfat Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.
3. sıfat 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.”

4. sıfat 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.”

5. sıfat That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist.