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I am not only almost completely in agreement with his analysis of the complex moment that Mayawati's victory represents - I am also quite persuaded by his critical appreciation of the limitations, which are not strictly reducible (as he rightly points out) to the 'structural constraints' of 'the system'.

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  1. Capable of being reduced; convertible. In the new World they have a World of Drinks; for there is no Root, Flower, Fruit, or Pulse but. is reducible to a notable Liquor. Howell, Letters, ii. 54. The line of its motion was neither straight nor yet reducible to any curve or mixed line that I had met with among mathematicians. Boyle, Works, III. 683. I have never been the less satisfied that no cause reducible to the known laws of nature occasioned my sufferings. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends. I. 198.
  2. Reducible circuit. Sea circuit.
  3. Reducible hernia a hernia whose contents can be returned by pressure or posture.

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  • He did not believe that all probabilities are numerically measurable or reducible, even in theory, to frequencies. —  My Philosophical Development
  • I am not only almost completely in agreement with his analysis of the complex moment that Mayawati's victory represents - I am also quite persuaded by his critical appreciation of the limitations, which are not strictly reducible (as he rightly points out) to the 'structural constraints' of 'the system'. —  Kafila
  • Oshkosh Defense to supply more than 1,500 reducible-height armor kits for the MTVR fleet of vehicles. —  National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
  • The reducible-height version of the armor kit allows the Marine Corps to transport armored MTVRs aboard ships by lowering the overall height of the vehicle. —  National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
  • The contract calls for more than 1,500 reducible-height armor kits to be supplied to the Marine Corps for after-market support of the medium tactical vehicle replacement fleet. —  All - WTN News
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  1. from Old French reducible =Spanish reducible =Portuguese reduzivel =Italian riducibile; as reduce + -ible. Cf. reduceable.
 

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