reductive
还原性,还原,还原性的,还原的
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Definitions
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- : of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- : of or relating to change from one form to another: reductive chemical processes.
- : employing an analysis of a complex subject into a simplified, less detailed form; of, pertaining to, or employing reductionism; reductionistic.
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- : something causing or inducing a reductive process.
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Examples
The thought that I stand for all of The Post — a newsroom of over a thousand journalists — is, of course, quite reductive.
This truncated form of information, as opposed to knowledge, that we get presented with online is often really reductive, binary and dogmatic.
Describing himself seems "unnecessarily reductive," though he acknowledges self-definition can be empowering for marginalized communities.
But, showing his focus wasn’t just on the miniscule and reductive in science, he was also a pioneer in the field of public health.
Because it's too cautious to dramatize real problems and too reductive to tackle them realistically.
But it would be reductive to make that parallel a blanket one.
He had read a positive review of his own work that nonetheless struck him as reductive and inaccurate.
It is all too easy to be heavy-handed and reductive, something of which Freud himself was guilty on many occasions.
Eric Foner complains that Spielberg's Lincoln is unacceptably reductive.
Now that the law compels a list of dangerous drugs on the label, the cures proceed admittedly by a reductive principle.
At a boiling heat, in presence of dilute acids, it is split up, yielding a reductive sugar.