Discount vs. Reduction
Discountverb
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
Discountverb
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
Discountverb
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discountverb
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
Discountverb
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
Discountnoun
A reduction in price.
Discountnoun
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discountnoun
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discountadjective
Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
Discountverb
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discountverb
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
Discountverb
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discountverb
To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Discountverb
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discountnoun
A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
Discountnoun
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discountnoun
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discountnoun
the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
Discountnoun
interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
Discountnoun
a refund of some fraction of the amount paid
Discountnoun
an amount or percentage deducted
Discountverb
bar from attention or consideration;
Discountverb
give a reduction in price on;
Reductionnoun
The act, process, or result of reducing.
Reductionnoun
The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
Reductionnoun
(chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
Reductionnoun
(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
Reductionnoun
(mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
Reductionnoun
(computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
Reductionnoun
(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
Reductionnoun
A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
Reductionnoun
(medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
Reductionnoun
The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
Reductionnoun
The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
Reductionnoun
The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
Reductionnoun
The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
Reductionnoun
The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
Reductionnoun
The act, process, or result of reducing{7}; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of an aldehyde into an alcohol.
Reductionnoun
The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Reductionnoun
the act of decreasing or reducing something
Reductionnoun
any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
Reductionnoun
the act of reducing complexity
Reductionnoun
the action or fact of making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size
Reductionnoun
the amount by which something is made smaller, less, or lower in price
Reductionnoun
the simplification of a subject or problem to a particular form in presentation or analysis
Reductionnoun
the process of converting an amount from one denomination to a smaller one, or of bringing down a fraction to its lowest terms.
Reductionnoun
the halving of the number of chromosomes per cell that occurs at one of the two anaphases of meiosis.
Reductionnoun
a thing that is made smaller or less in size or amount.
Reductionnoun
an arrangement of an orchestral score for piano or for a smaller group of performers.
Reductionnoun
a thick and concentrated liquid or sauce made by boiling.
Reductionnoun
a copy of a picture or photograph made on a smaller scale than the original.
Reductionnoun
the action of remedying a dislocation or fracture by returning the affected part of the body to its normal position
Reductionnoun
the process or result of reducing or being reduced
Reductionnoun
substitution of a sound which requires less muscular effort to articulate
