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reducible

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English reduce Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English reducible From reduce + -ible.

  1. Capable of being reduced.
  2. Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
  3. Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
  4. Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.