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reducer
[ ri-doo-ser, -dyoo- ]
noun
- a person or thing that reduces.
- Photography.
- an oxidizing solution for lessening the density of an exposed negative.
- a developing agent.
- (in plumbing) a coupling decreasing in diameter at one end. Compare increaser ( def 2 ).
reducer
/ rɪˈdjuːsə /
noun
- photog a chemical solution used to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the blackened silver to soluble silver compounds Compare intensifier
- a pipe fitting connecting two pipes of different diameters
- a person or thing that reduces
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- anti·re·ducer noun
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Example Sentences
Most high and mighty Czar of all flesh, ceaseless reducer of empires, unfathomable glutton in the whole realms of nature.
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Or, is it king Nala the reducer of hostile towns that hath come here?
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Succedaneum for Chrysarobin; very active reducer or "reactive."
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Very many, if not most, slides are all the better for just a touch of a "reducer" such as follows:—The ordinary "hypo."
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To prepare this reducer, take one part varnish (the same varnish to be reduced), and two parts of turpentine.
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