irreducible

[ir″rĕ-doo´sĭ-b'l]

not susceptible to reduction, as a fracture, hernia, or chemical substance.

ir·re·duc·i·ble

(ir'rē-dū'si-bĕl, i-rē-),

1. Not reducible; incapable of being made smaller.

2. In chemistry, incapable of being made simpler, or of being replaced, hydrogenated, or reduced in positive charge.

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ir·re·duc·i·ble

(ir'rĕ-dū'si-bĕl)

1. Not reducible; incapable of being made smaller.

2. chemistry Incapable of being made simpler, or of being replaced, hydrogenated, or reduced in positive charge.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

irreducible

Incapable of being replaced or restored to a former state, as in the case of a HERNIA or a fracture. Irreversible.

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Gilbert Harman famously argues that irreducible moral properties do not explain our observations.

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In the equational class of distributive lattices the only nontrivial subdirectly irreducible algebra is the two-element chain.

On Subdirect Decompositions of Finite Distributive Lattices

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A criterion of strong density of operator subalgebras

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