Usually means: Halving chromosome number, forms gametes.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (reduction division)

noun:  (biology, genetics, cytology) the first of the two divisions of meiosis, a type of cell division.
noun:  (biology, genetics, cytology) meiosis as a whole, a type of cell division.

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