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Redshift
- noun - (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding
REDSHIRT
- unknown - A college athlete who is allowed to practice with the varsity team but is kept out of competition for one year in order to extend the athlete's period of eligibility.
Redskins
- unknown - Slang for North American indians
Redstart
- noun - European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
- flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail
Redtails
- noun - dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail
- European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
Reducent
- - Tending to reduce. -- n. A reducent agent.
Reducers
- 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
- pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter
Reducing
- verb - 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
- be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
- be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
- cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
- cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
- loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
- lower in g
Reductio
- 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
Reduviid
- noun - a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals