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/ɪɹɪdjˈuːsəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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incapable of being made smaller or simpler
an irreducible formula
an irreducible hernia
an irreducible minimum
How To Use irreducible In A Sentence
- What can generally be observed empirically is typically a form of irreducible complexity where if a part is taken away then a lack of function results. Assessing Causality
- an irreducible formula
- She momentarily succumbs to the tendency to simplify irreducible complexities.
- Football's violence, it is true, is contained within rules and conventions, and controlled by a punishment regime, but it is also irreducible.
- It seems that this is a difficulty pertaining to our times: there is as yet only one possible choice, and this choice can bear only on two equally extreme methods: either to posit a reality which is entirely permeable to history, and ideologize; or, conversely, to posit a reality which is ultimately impenetrable, irreducible, and, in this case, poetize. Never Neutral
- I am quite familiar with the standard scientific application of 'irreducible complexity' in nonlinear science. A decent, popular article on intelligent design
- But thats precisely why you're definition of irreducible is useless, and why IC is relevant. Confirmation Bias and ID
- In addition, in its celebration of irreducible difference, postmodernism has been castigated for replicating the very categories of racist ideological thought that it is intended to supersede.
- The double-slit is a fundamental, irreducible quantum phenomenon. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
- If the dislocation is irreducible or unstable after reduction, referral to an orthopedic or hand subspecialist is advised.