Deduction vs. Reduction — What's the Difference?

The action of deducting or subtracting something

The process or result of reducing or being reduced

The inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle

The action or fact of making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size

The act of deducting; subtraction.

A thing that is made smaller or less in size or amount.

An amount that is or may be deducted

The action of remedying a dislocation or fracture by returning the affected part of the body to its normal position

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

Substitution of a sound which requires less muscular effort to articulate

The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific.

The act or process of reducing.

A conclusion reached by this process.

The result of reducing

That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed

The amount by which something is lessened or diminished

A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off

A sauce that has been thickened or concentrated by boiling.

(logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.

(Biology) The first meiotic division, in which the chromosome number is reduced from diploid to haploid. Also called reduction division.

A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out

A decrease in positive valence or an increase in negative valence by the gaining of electrons.

The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason

A reaction in which hydrogen is combined with a compound.

Act or process of deducing or inferring.

A reaction in which oxygen is removed from a compound.

Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.

The canceling of common factors in the numerator and denominator of a fraction.

That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.

The converting of a fraction to its decimal equivalent.

That which is or may be deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent in compensation for services; deductions from income in calculating income taxes.

The converting of an expression or equation to its simplest form.

A reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket

The act, process, or result of reducing.

An amount or percentage deducted

The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.

Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);

(chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.

Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.

The act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole);

(mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.

The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

(computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.

(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.

A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological 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).

(paying) A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.

(metalworking) The ratio of a material's change in thickness compared to its thickness prior to forging and/or rolling.

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.

The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.

The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.

The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.

The act, process, or result of reducing{7}; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of an aldehyde into an alcohol.

The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.

The act of decreasing or reducing something

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

The act of reducing complexity