"reducer" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹɪˈdusɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-reducer.wav [Southern-England] Forms: reducers [plural]
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  1. Something or someone that reduces. Translations (something that reduces): редуктор (reduktor) (Bulgarian), vähentäjä (Finnish), heikentäjä (Finnish), réducteur [masculine] (French), Reduzierer [masculine] (German), reductor [masculine] (Spanish)
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  2. (chemistry) A reducing agent.
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  3. (hydraulics) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
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  4. (photography) A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness. Translations (photography: developing liquid): rebaixador [masculine] (Catalan), heikenne (Finnish)
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  5. (plumbing) A component used to connect two pipes of different bores. Translations (plumbing component): supistaja (Finnish), Reduzierung [feminine] (German), złączka redukcyjna [feminine] (Polish)
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  6. (software) A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
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  7. (soccer) The reduction of the contribution to a football game of a more talented opponent by intimidation using a brutal tackle.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: entrance reducer, Farmer's reducer

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