redukcja

• redukcya (Pre-reform orthography (1816))

Borrowed from French réduction.[1][2] First attested in the 18th century.[3]

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈduk.t͡sja/

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• Rhymes: -ukt͡sja
• Syllabification: re‧duk‧cja

redukcja f (related adjective redukcyjny)

1. reduction (act, process, or result of reducing)

   Synonym: zmniejszanie

2. (business) downsizing (act of reducing number of employees)
3. reduction (lowering the value by reducing it to something simpler)
4. (chemistry) reduction (reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen)
5. (phonology) reduction (weakening of the articulation of sounds or their disappearance in words)
6. (logic) deduction (process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true)
7. (historical, Roman Catholicism) reduction (Catholic missionary institution established in the 17th century in South America)

• → Kashubian: redukcjô
• → Silesian: redukcyjŏ

• redukcja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• redukcja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “redukcja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “redukcja”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 494