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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs reduce and reduct which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

reductive

(Scotland law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. [from 16th c.]
Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something. [from 17th c.]
(chemistry) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form. [from 17th c.]
(now rare, historical) That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else. [from 17th c.]
(pejorative) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms:

Examples:

“Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation.”

“The ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning in which it might be taken.”

“The relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals were demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead.”

reducible

Capable of being reduced.
(mathematics) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as
(mathematics) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
(manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
Synonyms:

generalisable, generalizable, generalized, generalised, stereotypable, apparent, discernible, evident, observable, obvious, systemic, pervasive, widespread, global, sweeping, universal, broad based, unspecified … more

Examples:

“Ethics, one might say, enshrines the principle that subjectivity is not reducible to objective analysis.”

“Second, unlike the Left, green politics are not based on class and their analyses are not reducible to class.”

“Unlike the empiricist, the instrumentalist does not maintain that the only valid concepts are those reducible to sense data.”

reduced

Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price
In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.
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Examples:

“It is shown that the solution allowed the roof to be made with a reduced amount of material.”

“Practically everything from footwear to frocks, and from teatowels to fancy-work, is to be had at reduced prices during the sales.”

“This structure is, in fact, is Vogler's reduced version of the hero's journey.”

reductivist

Tending to reduce to a minimum or to simplify in an extreme way.

reductional

Of, pertaining to, or producing reduction.
Examples:

“Three properties of meiotic chromosomes act to form a bivalent that will undergo proper reductional division.”

“When a crossover occurs between the centromere and the locus, the first division can be either equational or reductional.”

reductionistic

Of or pertaining to reductionism.
Synonyms:

reductionist, oversimplified, simplistic

Examples:

“One of the great aspects of this interesting book is the constant effort to avoid a reductionistic conception of grief.”

“He has written several books decrying the tendency of scientists to be overly reductionistic in their analyses.”

“To ignore the emotional realities of parenthood is misleadingly reductionistic.”

reductionist

Of, or relating to reductionism.
Synonyms:

reductionistic, oversimplified, simplistic

Examples:

“After reading the book, I found the author's reductionist approach disappointing as he attempted to oversimplify complex societal issues.”

reduceable

Alternative form of reducible

reductasic

(biochemistry) Relating to a reductase

reducing

(chemistry) That causes reduction.
Synonyms:

reducted

simple past tense and past participle of reduct

reducting

present participle of reduct

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