irreducibility
irreducibility noun: the quality or degree of being irreducible.
Noun
irreducibility (countable and uncountable, plural irreducibilities)
- The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- I gave them account of what I had seen of the case, of my opinion concerning the irreducibility of the rupture, and that it had no share in the present complaint; at the same time desiring my colleague to examine for himself.1779, Percivall Pott, The Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott, volume 3, page 305
- Something that is irreducible.
- There is plebs in bodies, in souls, in individuals, in the proletariat, in the bourgeoisie, but everywhere in a diversity of forms and extensions, of energies and irreducibilities.1997, John S. Ransom, Foucault's discipline: the politics of subjectivity, page 130
Antonyms of irreducibility
Forms of irreducibility
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Words formed from irreducibility
Questions about irreducibility
- What does irreducibility mean?
- Irreducibility means the quality or degree of being irreducible.
- What part of speech is irreducibility?
- Irreducibility is a noun.
- What is the plural of irreducibility?
- The plural of irreducibility is irreducibilities.
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