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Definitions: Reducer |
ReducerNoun1. A substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the slackened silver. 2. Pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | A taper pipe reducing in diameter in the direction of flow. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The function of a reducer is to reduce a line to a smaller pipe size. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Chemistry | Volatile liquid used to modify the consistency of paint, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | A pipe or pipe fitting having a smaller size opening at one end than at the other. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | To diminish the intensity of the image. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A connecting pipe having ends of different diameter. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Gearing in a piston engine to reduce the rotational speed of the propeller shaft. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A coupling with a female thread on one side and a smaller-diameter male thread on the other, used to attach smaller hose lines to larger ones. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ReducerSynonyms: reducing agent (n), reductant (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: adaptor (mining), bull gear (mechanical engineering), conduit reducer (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering), gear reducer (mechanical engineering), pipe reducer (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering), reducer fitting (mining), reducing coupling (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering), reducing socket (mining), reduction gear (mechanical engineering), reduction piece (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering), speed reducer (mechanical engineering), thinner (chemistry). |
Crosswords: Reducer |
| Specialty definitions using "reducer": change speed, conduit reducer ♦ epicyclic gearing, evaporation reducer ♦ gear reducer ♦ head shaft ♦ mirror silverer ♦ pipe reducer, planetary gearing, planetary gears ♦ SILVERER, speed reducer, speed-change, speed-change mechanism, speed-changing mechanism ♦ variable gear, variable speed transmission, variable transmission, variable-speed drive. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Peru | Best prospects include: angular and frontal crane trucks, drilling and pumping machines, solid carbon steel bars, crowns and trepans, christmas tree valves, drill bits, drilling and extraction ground machinery, large drill and reamers, no repulse drilling machines, stainless steel globe valves, parts for turbines, steam single cylinder engines, integral large drills, carbon stainless steel slug, polyethylene pipe, seamless pipe, accessories for pipes, vessels for compressed gas, burners for gas, reducer pressure valves, gas valves and parts, safety valves, measurement and controllers, gas reducers and regulators and centrifugal pumps. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reducer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reducer" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reducer": air reducer ♦ conduit reducer ♦ evaporation reducer ♦ flash reducer ♦ gear reducer ♦ pipe reducer ♦ pressure reducer ♦ speed reducer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "reducer": weight-reducer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stress reducer | 113 |
speed reducer | 72 |
gear reducer | 63 |
the reducer | 43 |
recoil reducer | 19 |
pipe reducer | 19 |
cellulite reducer | 16 |
fever reducer | 14 |
voltage reducer | 10 |
pore reducer | 10 |
fat reducer | 9 |
image reducer | 9 |
falk reducer | 9 |
pressure reducer | 9 |
shotgun recoil reducer | 9 |
worm gear reducer | 8 |
rational reducer | 7 |
acid reducer | 7 |
planetary gear reducer | 7 |
concentric reducer | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reducer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | редуцираща зъбна предавка, редуциращ разтвор, редуциращ вентил, редуктор (reducing agent, speed reducer), откислител, намаляваща зъбна предавка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | reduktionsmuffe (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), reduktionsgear (bull gear, gear reducer, reduction gear, speed reducer), reduceringsmiddel, reducerende indsats, fortyndingsmiddel (cutter stock, diluent, thinner), afsvaekker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reductiewiel, reductietandwiel (bull gear, gear reducer, reduction gear, speed reducer), reductiestuk (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), verzwakkingsbad, verzwakker (attenuator), verloopstuk (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece, stepped steel couplings, sub, substitute), verdunningsmiddel (cutter stock, diluant, diluent, thinner), overgangsstuk (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece, subs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کاهنده (Ablative), تقلیل دهنده , عامل کم کننده , احیاکننده (Regenerative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vähennysputki (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), supistusputki (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), ohenne (carrier, diluent, dilutant, thinner), laimenne (cutter stock, diluent, thinner), kavennuskappale (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | affaiblisseur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Abschwächer (attenuator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συστολή (amount of shrinkage, bashfulness, compression, conduit reducer, constraint, contraction, convergence, coyness, neck, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction, reduction piece, retraction, shrinkage, shyness, sub, substitute, systole, to contract), μειωτήρας (attenuator, bull gear, gear reducer, reduction gear, speed reducer), περιστέλλων, εξασθενητικό, εξασθενητής (attenuator, damper), ελαττών (lessener), αραιωτικό μέσο (cutter stock, diluent, thinner), αραιωτής (extender, thinner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hátrasiklás-csökkentő (recoil reducer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riduttore (adapter, bull gear, gear reducer, reducing agent, reduction gear, speed reducer), tubo di riduzione (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), pezzo riduttore (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), indebolitore, diluente (base, base of active ingredient, cutter stock, diluant, diluent, extender, thinner), allungante (thinner), agente allungante (thinner), affievolitore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 흡진기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jee-ocsaideyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | educerray redutor (bull gear, conduit reducer, gear reducer, pipe reducer, reducing agent, reducing coupling, reductant, reduction gear, reduction piece, speed reducer). (various references) преобразователь (changer, converter, reformer, transducer, transformer). (various references) umanjivač brzine (speed reducer). (various references) reductor (bull gear, conduit reducer, gear, gear reducer, machine, pipe reducer, reducing agent, reducing coupling, reductant, reduction gear, reduction piece, speed reducer, step-down), reducción (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, adaptor, baiting, bating, contraction, curtailment, cutback, depletion, discount, mark down, narrowing, rebate, reducer fitting, reducing socket, reduction, retrenchment, setting, shortening, tapering), tubo de reducción (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), pieza de reducción (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece), diluyente (carrier, cutter stock, diluant, diluent, dilutant, extender, thinner), debilitador. (various references) tunning (thinner), spädningsmedel (diluent, thinner), förtunningsmedel (carrier, diluent, dilutant, thinner), övergångsrör (conduit reducer, pipe reducer, reducing coupling, reduction piece). (various references) redüktör (reduction gear), negatifleri zayıflatıcı madde, indirgen (reducing). (various references) cái giảm tốc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reducer": reducers. (additional references) | |
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"Reducer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raduce, reculer, Redacre, redcu, redice, rediser, reduc, redue, reduse, reduxe, reduxer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cruder, curred, reduce. | |
-2 letters: ceder, cered, creed, crude, cured, curer, deuce, educe, erred, recur, ruder. | |
-3 letters: cede, cere, crud, cued, curd, cure, curr, deer, dere, dree, duce, dure, durr, ecru, rede, reed, rude, rued, ruer. | |
-4 letters: cee, cud, cue, cur, dee, due, ecu, ere, err, rec, red, ree, rue, urd. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: curseder, precured, recurred, recurved, reducers. | |
+2 letters: decurrent, overcured, procedure, recruited, reproduce, resecured. | |
+3 letters: carbureted, mercurated, procedures, reacquired, recaptured, recrudesce, reincurred, reoccurred, reproduced, reproducer, reproduces, resurfaced, undercover, underprice, underreact, underscore, unrecorded. | |
+4 letters: carburetted, decarburize, irreducible, overproduce, quarterdeck, reconquered, recontoured, recrudesced, recrudesces, recuperated, reintroduce, relacquered, reproducers, repurchased, resurrected, unchartered, uncorrected, undercharge, underpriced, underprices, underreacts, underscored, underscores, unrecovered. | |
+5 letters: cloudberries, correctitude, counterfired, counterorder, countertrade, countertrend, creaturehood, decarburized, decarburizes, outreproduce, overproduced, overproduces, prepurchased, quarterdecks, recirculated, reconfigured, recrudescent, recrudescing, reintroduced, reintroduces, relubricated, rencountered, reproducible, reproductive, restructured, rubbernecked, supercharged, superscribed, uncorrelated, undercharged, undercharges, undercurrent, underreacted, undersurface, unreinforced, unrestricted. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 64 75 63 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.. ..- -.-. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01100011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e d u c e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0064 0075 0063 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52717087697184 |
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