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Redaction
- noun - putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
- the act of putting something in writing
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
Refaction
- - Recompense; atonement; retribution.
Refection
- noun - a light meal or repast
Reflation
- noun - inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state
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.
Rendition
- noun - a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert"
- an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning"
- handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed
- the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving"
Repletion
- noun - eating until excessively full
- the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more