Not able to be reduced or lessened.
Used in a Sentence
irreducible
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for irreducible.
Editorial note
Prime in this case means irreducible, which means you can't factor it.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Not able to be reduced or lessened.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of irreducible gathered in one view.
Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
(mathematics) Such a polynomial
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for irreducible.
adjective
Not able to be reduced or lessened.
adjective
Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
noun
(mathematics) Such a polynomial
adjective
(mathematics, of a polynomial) Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x² + 1).
Example sentences
Prime in this case means irreducible, which means you can't factor it.
So what people do is pick an irreducible polynomial of degree 7 and that maps perfectly to a byte.
Free will is an irreducible primary that many people today want to ignore, deny, evade to shirk the responsibility of judgement.
In the case of irreducible control-flow it may produce redundant cyclic phis, but those can be eliminated with a pretty simple post-pass.
You can convert irreducible control flow to reducible control flow, but it can explode the size of the graph in pathological cases.
I would say the psychological riddle is why people feel an urge to treat consciousness as an irreducible quality.
None of it derives from base, irreducible principles, so are completely arbitrary.
As to non-naturalist ethics, I see absolutely no problem with concepts that are irreducible to atoms.
You can then generate some tables that make multiplication and addition of these elements modulo your irreducible polynomial fast, and then apply this interpolation technique.
You're conflating the fundamental technicality and irreducible complexity of the issues that Docker is attempting to solve with the UI they are wrapping around it.
Protein crystallization is a tricky process with many irreducible results.
I've heard claims that Behe's idea of irreducible complexity has been refuted.
Quote examples
What's left behind is "irreducible" since you can't take anything away and still have a working system.
The two might well operate at two irreducible levels of abstractions, and even if one gives rise to the other, it does not form a sufficient "explanation" (whatever that means).
> For a layman's summary of the main issues with the science Shall I send you convincing-to-a-layperson links about "irreducible complexity" as the main issue with evolution?
You can't test it in a lab, you can't observe it in nature--unless you think irreducible complexity (aka "we don't understand how this could come about, therefore it must be divinely created") is a sound scientific theory.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use irreducible in a sentence?
Prime in this case means irreducible, which means you can't factor it.
What does irreducible mean?
Not able to be reduced or lessened.
What part of speech is irreducible?
irreducible is commonly used as adjective, noun.