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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
Refaction
- - Recompense; atonement; retribution.
Refashion
- verb - make new; "She is remaking her image"
Refection
- noun - a light meal or repast
Reflation
- noun - inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state
Reflexion
- noun - a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
- a likeness in which left and right are reversed
- a remark expressing careful consideration
- expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
- the ability to reflect beams or rays
- the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material); "he studied his reflection in the mirror"
- the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
Refossion
- - The act of digging up again.
Rejection
- noun - (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"
- the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
- the speech act of rejecting
- the state of being rejected
Reliction
- - A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession.
Remission
- noun - (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- a payment of money sent to a person in another place
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance