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adjective
Irreducible  adj.  
1.
Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.
2.
(Math.) Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula.
Irreducible case (Alg.), a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore fails in its application.






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"Irreducible" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Quality, not quantity," is the right motto for women in matters of dress. For all that, we trust that the irreducible ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 • Various

... simply under an organised kinetic government. But what seems to be merely an addition to the difficulty may in the end turn out to be a simplification, just as the introduction of a fresh term to an intricate irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... Everything but the irreducible crude fact of child-bearing assumed, in the Leath household, the same ghostly tinge of unreality. Her husband, at the time, was all that his own ideal of a husband required. He was attentive, and even suitably moved: ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton



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