reducible

English

Etymology

reduce +‎ -ible

Adjective

reducible (comparative more reducible, superlative most reducible)

1. Capable of being reduced.
2. (mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as $x^{2}-1$.
3. (mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
4. (topology, of a manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.

Antonyms

• irreducible
• increasable

Derived terms

• bioreducible
• many-one reducible
• one-one reducible
• reducibility

Translations

capable of being reduced

• Catalan: reductible
• Italian: riducibile (it)
• Japanese: 減らせる (へらせる, heraseru)
• Manx: yn-leodaghey
• Romanian: reductibil (ro), micșorabil, diminuabil
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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сво̀дљив

  Roman: svòdljiv (sh)

• Spanish: reducible (es), reductible

able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree

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able to be factored into smaller integers; composite

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containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball

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Spanish

Adjective

reducible m or f (masculine and feminine plural reducibles)

1. reducible