| CREDULITY | • credulity n. A willingness to believe in someone or something in the absence of reasonable proof; credulousness. • credulity n. (Now nonstandard) Faith, credence; acceptance or maintenance of a belief. • CREDULITY n. readiness to believe. |
| CREDULOUS | • credulous adj. Excessively ready to believe things; gullible. • credulous adj. Believed too readily. • CREDULOUS adj. gullible. |
| REDUBBING | • redubbing v. Present participle of redub. • redubbing n. The process by which video material is redubbed, or the resulting edited material. • REDUB v. to dub again. |
| REDUCIBLE | • reducible adj. Capable of being reduced. • reducible adj. (Mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as 𝑥2−1. • reducible adj. (Mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite. |
| REDUCIBLY | • reducibly adv. In a reducible manner. • REDUCIBLE adv. capable of being reduced. |
| REDUCTANT | • reductant n. (Chemistry) Synonym of reducing agent. • REDUCTANT n. a reducing agent. |
| REDUCTASE | • reductase n. (Biochemistry) An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate. • REDUCTASE n. an enzyme which brings about the reduction of organic compounds. |
| REDUCTION | • reduction n. The act, process, or result of reducing. • reduction n. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price. • reduction n. (Chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of… |
| REDUCTIVE | • reductive adj. (Scotland law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. • reductive adj. Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something. • reductive adj. (Chemistry, metallurgy, biology, economics) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form. |
| REDUCTORS | • REDUCTOR n. an apparatus for the reduction of metallic ions in solution. |
| REDUNDANT | • redundant adj. Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary, no longer needed. • redundant adj. (Of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy. • redundant adj. (Chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Australia) Dismissed from employment because no longer needed. |
| REDUVIIDS | • reduviids n. Plural of reduviid. • REDUVIID n. a member of a family of predaceous bugs. |
| UNREDUCED | • unreduced adj. Not reduced or subjected to reduction. • UNREDUCED adj. not reduced. |