Reduction (1 Occurrence)

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Leviticus 27:18 but if he hallow his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee; and there shall be a reduction from thy valuation. (DBY)

Thesaurus

Reduction (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) 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 ...
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Nicanor (1 Occurrence)
... Soter. After the defeat of Seron by Judas, Epiphanes entrusted his chancellor
Lysias with the reduction of Judea (1 Maccabees 3:34;). ...
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Abatement (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution,
or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance ...
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Redundance (11 Occurrences)

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Neck (97 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove
around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft. ...
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Libraries
... The more numerous the individuals and the longer the period, the greater the reduction
of error, so that the logical inference as to the Bible is that on ...
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Gas
... to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction
from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature ...
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Waste (668 Occurrences)
... grow less. 9. (vi) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said
of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc. 10. (n.) The ...
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Incarnation (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to
apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. ...
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Face (780 Occurrences)
... 16. (n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper,
without any addition for interest or reduction for discount. 17. ...
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Greek

4486. rhegnumi -- to break apart, by ext. to throw down
... of the parts; katagnumi being its intensive (with the preposition in composition),
and thrauo a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the ...
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5594. psucho -- to breathe, blow, to make cool
... a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of aer, which refers properly
to an inanimate breeze), ie (by implication, of reduction of temperature ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) 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.

2. (n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce.

3. (n.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.

4. (n.) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.

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

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

7. (n.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.

8. (n.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.