simplification

English

Etymology

From the French simplification.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪmpləfəˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: sim‧pli‧fi‧ca‧tion

Noun

simplification (countable and uncountable, plural simplifications)

1. the act of simplifying or something that has been simplified
2. (logic) a valid simple argument

Translations

act of simplifying

• Catalan: simplificació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 簡單化 (zh), 简单化 (zh) (jiǎndānhuà), 簡化 (zh), 简化 (zh) (jiǎnhuà)

• Czech: zjednodušení n
• Dutch: vereenvoudiging (nl) f, versimpeling f
• French: simplification (fr) f
• Galician: simplificación (gl) f
• German: Vereinfachung f
• Greek: απλούστευση (el) f (aploústefsi), απλοποίηση (el) f (aplopoíisi)
• Italian: semplificazione (it) f
• Japanese: 単純化 (ja) (たんじゅんか, tanjunka)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forenkling m, f

  Nynorsk: forenkling f

• Polish: uproszczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: simplificação (pt) f
• Russian: упроще́ние (ru) n (uproščénije)
• Spanish: simplificación f
• Swedish: förenkling (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagpayak, pamayak
• Turkish: basitleştirme (tr)

---

French

Etymology

simplifier +‎ -(at)ion

Noun

simplification f (plural simplifications)

1. simplification

Descendants

• English: simplification

References

• “simplification” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).