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Redstreak
- - A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
Redthroat
- - A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
Reducible
- adjective - capable of being reduced; "reducible to a set of principles of human nature"- Edmund Wilson
Reducings
- noun - 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
- loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
Reductant
- noun - a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
Reductase
- noun - an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance
Reduction
- noun - 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 decreasing or reducing something
- the act of reducing complexity
Reductios
- noun - (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
Reductive
- adjective - characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere
Redundant
- adjective - more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
- repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant