Promotion vs. Reduction — What's the Difference?

Activity that supports or encourages a cause, venture, or aim

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

The publicizing of a product, organization, or venture so as to increase sales or public awareness

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

The action of promoting someone or something to a higher position or rank or the fact of being so promoted

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

The action of promoting a catalyst.

The process or result of reducing or being reduced

The act of promoting someone to a higher job, grade, or rank, or the fact of being so promoted.

Substitution of a sound which requires less muscular effort to articulate

Support or encouragement of the progress, growth, or acceptance of something; furtherance

The act or process of reducing.

Advertising; publicity.

The result of reducing

An act, event, or offer that helps to increase interest in or demand for something

The amount by which something is lessened or diminished

An advancement in rank or position.

A sauce that has been thickened or concentrated by boiling.

Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.

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

(marketing) An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.

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

(chess) Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).

A reaction in which hydrogen is combined with a compound.

Forward motion. Contrast remotion.

A reaction in which oxygen is removed from a compound.

The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.

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

A message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution

The converting of a fraction to its decimal equivalent.

Act of raising in rank or position

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

Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

The act, process, or result of reducing.

The advancement of some enterprise;

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

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

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

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

(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