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134 [The word reduce is here used in its literal etymological sense as signifying to bring back or to restore_.—_Ed.

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  1. transitive verb To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish. See Synonyms at decrease.
  2. transitive verb To bring to a humbler, weaker, difficult, or forced state or condition; especially:
  3. transitive verb To gain control of; conquer: "a design to reduce them under absolute despotism” (Declaration of Independence).
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  • A second function-known as the reduce function - then goes through the aggregation output by the map function and selects the desired data, outputting it to a temporary file, organizing it in a table in memory, or even putting it into a data mart to be analyzed with traditional BI tools.
  • But a silver lining, if you want to see it that way, is if the US goes into a long recession, we aren't going to be buying much chinese goods, who in turn, will face recessionary forces, have massive layoffs, and reduce * their* consumption of oil too. —  Latest Articles
  • A: If you look at the hierarchy of waste reduction - reduce, reuse, recycle - recycle is the third option. —  statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories
  • While the methods vary considerably, the goals are still much the same -- reduce the size of primary storage as much as possible through compression and deduplication techniques. —  SearchStorage: News and trends in the storage industry
  • Reuse, reduce, and recycle with the Huru Humi kids and find out. —  GamersHell.com - Latest News
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  1. Middle English reducen, to bring back, from Old French reducier, from Latin redūcere : re-, re- + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English reducen, from Old French reducier, vernacularly reduire, French réduire = Provencal reduzir, reduire = Catalan reduir = Spanish reducir =Portuguese reduzir =Italian ridurre, from Latin reducere, lead or bring back, draw back, restore, replace, bring to a certain condition, reduce, from re-, back, + ducere, lead, bring: see duct. Cf. reduct, reduit, redout.
 

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