irreducible
Pronunciation: /ˌɪɹɪˈdjuːsɪbəl/
The English word “irreducible” has 10 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Not able to be reduced or lessened.
- Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
- Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x² + 1).
- Whose numerator and denominator share no common factor greater than 1.
- Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
- Whose only divisors are units and associates.
- Inexpressible as the union of two proper algebraic subvarieties.
- Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
- Impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation.
noun
- Such a polynomial
Etymology
From ir- + reducible.
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More English words
- Irredentist
- irredentist
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- irreducible complexity
- irreducibleness
- irreducibly
- irreducibly complex
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