reductive — 영어 사전

형용사

1. Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory.

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2. Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something.

3. That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form.

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

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   It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

4. That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else.

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

형용사

1. characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment