Amount vs. Reduction — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Amount and Reduction
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Amount
A quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent
The substance is harmless if taken in small amounts
Sport gives an enormous amount of pleasure to many people
Reduction
The action or fact of making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size
There had been a reduction in the number of casualties
Talks on arms reduction
Amount
Come to be (the total) when added together
Losses amounted to over 10 million pounds
Reduction
A thing that is made smaller or less in size or amount.
Amount
The total of two or more quantities; the aggregate.
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Reduction
The action of remedying a dislocation or fracture by returning the affected part of the body to its normal position
We must see if the fracture requires reduction
Amount
A number; a sum.
Reduction
The process or result of reducing or being reduced
The reaction is limited to reduction to the hydrocarbon
Amount
A principal plus its interest, as in a loan.
Reduction
Substitution of a sound which requires less muscular effort to articulate
The process of vowel reduction
Amount
The full effect or meaning; import.
Reduction
The act or process of reducing.
Amount
Quantity
A great amount of intelligence.
Reduction
The result of reducing
A reduction in absenteeism.
Amount
To add up in number or quantity
The purchases amounted to 50 dollars.
Reduction
The amount by which something is lessened or diminished
A reduction of 12 percent in violent crime.
Amount
To add up in import or effect
That plan will never amount to anything.
Reduction
A sauce that has been thickened or concentrated by boiling.
Amount
To be equivalent or tantamount
Accusations that amount to an indictment.
Reduction
(Biology) The first meiotic division, in which the chromosome number is reduced from diploid to haploid. Also called reduction division.
Amount
The total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English.
The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
Reduction
A decrease in positive valence or an increase in negative valence by the gaining of electrons.
Amount
A quantity or volume.
Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
The dogs need different amounts of food.
Reduction
A reaction in which hydrogen is combined with a compound.
Amount
The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
Reduction
A reaction in which oxygen is removed from a compound.
Amount
To total or evaluate.
It amounts to three dollars and change.
Reduction
The canceling of common factors in the numerator and denominator of a fraction.
Amount
To be the same as or equivalent to.
He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
His response amounted to gross insubordination
Reduction
The converting of a fraction to its decimal equivalent.
Amount
To go up; to ascend.
Reduction
The converting of an expression or equation to its simplest form.
Amount
To go up; to ascend.
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Reduction
The act, process, or result of reducing.
Amount
To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; - with to or unto.
Reduction
The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
A 5% reduction in robberies
Amount
To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
Reduction
(chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
Amount
To signify; to amount to.
Reduction
(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
Amount
The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
Reduction
(mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
Amount
The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
The whole amount of that enormous fame.
Reduction
(computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
Amount
How much of something is available;
An adequate amount of food for four people
Reduction
(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
Amount
A quantity of money;
He borrowed a large sum
The amount he had in cash was insufficient
Reduction
A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
Amount
How much there is of something that you can quantify
Reduction
(medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment, usually with a closed approach but sometimes with an open approach (surgery).
Closed reduction
Open reduction and internal fixation
Amount
A quantity obtained by addition
Reduction
(paying) A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.
Amount
Be tantamount or equivalent to;
Her action amounted to a rebellion
Reduction
(metalworking) The ratio of a material's change in thickness compared to its thickness prior to forging and/or rolling.
Amount
Add up in number or quantity;
The bills amounted to $2,000
The bill came to $2,000
Reduction
The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
Amount
Develop into;
This idea will never amount to anything
Nothing came of his grandiose plans
Reduction
The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
Reduction
The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
Reduction
The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
Reduction
The act, process, or result of reducing{7}; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of an aldehyde into an alcohol.
Reduction
The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Reduction
The act of decreasing or reducing something
Reduction
Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
Reduction
The act of reducing complexity
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