Meaning
- 1.
return; giving back; restoration — An act of going back to the original state; or an act of making this happen.
- 2.
reduction — In philosophy, an act of changing miscellaneous things or phenomena into fundamental ones.
- 3.
reduction — In chemistry, a phenomenon in which a substance mixed with oxygen loses the oxygen, or a substance combines with hydrogen, or certain atoms, molecules, ions, etc., acquire electrons.