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n (context|mathematics) reduction | Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

n The result of shortening or reduce | reducing; abridgment. (defdate|First attested around 1350 to 1470.)(reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =Brown, Lesley | others = | title = The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =Oxford University Press | location =Oxford, UK | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =3| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =)

n A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as, +, =, @. (defdate|Late 16^th century.)

n The process of abbreviating. (defdate|Mid 16^th century.)

n (context|music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.

n (context|music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.

n Any convenient short form used as a substitutuion for an understood or inferred whole.

n (context|biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.