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adjective
1.
not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further: the irreducible minimum.
2.
incapable of being brought into a different condition or form.
3.
Mathematics.
a.
of or pertaining to a polynomial that cannot be factored.
b.
of or pertaining to a group that cannot be written as the direct product of two of its subgroups.
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Irreducible
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irreducible ir·re·duc·i·ble (ĭr'ĭ-d&oomacr;'sə-bəl, -dy&oomacr;'-)
adj.
Impossible to reduce to a desired, simpler, or smaller form or amount.
Incapable of being made chemically simpler, or of being replaced, hydrogenated, or reduced in positive charge.
ir're·duc'i·bil'i·ty or ir're·duc'i·ble·ness n.
ir're·duc'i·bly adv.
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