reductive
క్షయకరణ
definition
adjective
such a conclusion by itself would be reductive
tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.
Malic enzyme catalyses the reductive decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate.
of or relating to chemical reduction.
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Six subsequent landscapes become successively more 'reductive' , as both the fiver and the horizon are eliminated from view.
His 'reductive' abstract style, while increasingly planar and hard-edged, remained connected to aspects of the observed world.
His figures are made from 'reductive' shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques.
Her paintings are executed in vibrant palettes and flat, broad shapes, their 'reductive' surfaces reminiscent of advertising billboards, as well as the cool, illustrative portraits of Alex Katz.
There is a 'reductive' , Minimalist character to this work as well.
Furthermore, the underlying suggestion of an inherent connection between physicality and culture seems awkwardly 'reductive' .
Emphatically framed by the terrace walls, the Inland Sea looks painted, while Sugimoto's black-and-white photos are so 'reductive' that they evoke abstract paintings.
Coke, which is pyrolyzed from coal in the coke oven, is a 'reductive' reactant used in steel plants.
Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of 'reductive' minimalism.
Their contention, supported by the evidence of Professor Baldwin, is that both oxidative and 'reductive' pathways involve the enol.
I thought we were getting overly 'reductive' and simplistic.
NO, with its unpaired electron, is a free radical capable of undergoing various oxidative and 'reductive' reactions, whereas CO is relatively inert.
He had retreated into a 'reductive' cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness.
However, most of the major statements on critical pedagogy reinscribe a more 'reductive' view of power in the classroom.
How is it that Max Cole's large acrylic paintings manage to look so fresh in the context of four full decades of 'reductive' abstraction?
Science, he argues, is necessarily reductive, and 'reductive' science undermines humanist ideas about phenomena such as consciousness or free will.
I think people want the discourse to be elevated a little bit, to be a little more challenging with your subject matter, and with your characters, and not 'reductive' about them.
Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and 'reductive' of the complexity of the situation.
Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Lundeberg kept pace with her husband, who had developed his own manner of 'reductive' abstraction based on forms of the human body.
The need to escape the 'reductive' view of sex work as only a career is another important theme in the book, which is developed in the chapters on France, Brazil, Lima, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
The 'reductive' austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means.
Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly 'reductive' .
It's a 'reductive' attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
What is bad about all terror is when it is attached to religious and political abstractions and 'reductive' myths that keep veering away from history and sense.
Not only is this view 'reductive' , it reinscribes the ethnocentrism of the Britain's imperialist past under the guise of making a ‘safer’ present through the same war-mongering means.
This might be too 'reductive' , but there always seems to be a man, a woman and a child as the central axis.
What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the 'reductive' sensibility?
The imagination, ethics, and, ultimately, logic itself demand a less 'reductive' view.
Crass, cheap, 'reductive' and - if viewed in a certain light - even rather homophobic?
‘It's the most 'reductive' story in the song,’ says Marcus.
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