Concept cluster: Physical processes > Reducing or decreasing in size
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(medicine, obsolete) To displace by anteversion.
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(transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
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(transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make small; (figuratively) to make as though small.
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(transitive) To inspire significantly by catalysis.
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(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
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(humorous, intransitive) To become compact or more compact.
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(transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
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The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
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A reversible reduction in size.
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(computer graphics) To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality.
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(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
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(transitive) To make less flexible.
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(transitive) To make (something) smaller, to reduce.
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Obsolete form of diminish. [(transitive) To make smaller.]
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(obsolete, rare) To diminish the quantity of.
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(transitive) To make smaller.
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To make (someone or something) appear smaller (often in a figurative sense).
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The act or process of falling out of entrainment; precipitation form a flow or current.
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(obsolete) To disperse; to scatter.
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(transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
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Obsolete form of dispread. [(archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.]
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(transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
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(transitive, computing) To reduce the clock speed of.
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(transitive) To convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of lower quality and reduced functionality.
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(transitive) To reduce the gauge of; to make thinner.
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To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
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That which downgrades.
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To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation
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Being downmarket, of a lower quality.
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Someone or something which downscales.
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To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
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(intransitive) To reduce in size or number.
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One who, or that which, downsizes.
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The scaling down or simplifying of technical solutions, including the use of lower tech products or processes in an otherwise high tech environment
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(informal) To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
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emissive; emitting something
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(humorous, transitive) To make smaller.
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(programming, transitive) To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
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To make shorter.
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(transitive) To make gradual, or introduce gradually.
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An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
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One who, or that which, lessens.
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To make smaller.
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(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
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To diminish.
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A splitting off or breaking away from; a secession; divergence.
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Alternative form of phaseout. [The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.]
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The action of phasing out; an incremental removal or reduction.
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Tending to propel.
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A second or subsequent collapse.
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(transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
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(exercise) The making an exercise less straining to perform by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
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(business, euphemistic) To downsize.
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(transitive) To remove the scales of.
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(transitive) To reduce the cost of a process, or the amount spent on something.
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An operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.
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The act or result of scaling down.
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(transitive, intransitive) To make or become less deep.
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(intransitive) To become shorter.
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(transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
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(transitive, intransitive, economics, informal) To make a product smaller while continuing to market it at the same price.
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(intransitive) To become simpler.
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(transitive, dated) To consider thoroughly so as to form an opinion of; to size up.
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(transitive, intransitive) To reduce weight; to make or become thinner.
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(by extension) A downsizing.
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(transitive) To make small or less significant.
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(euphemistic) downsize
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To be diffused; to spread.
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(transitive, computing) To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).
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Alternative form of cut down to size [To humble or humiliate, especially someone or something that is perceived as overly domineering or too proud.]
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(computing) The deliberate reduction of the speed of a CPU, often to reduce power consumption.
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(rare, transitive, intransitive) To reverse the process of growth; to shrink or decrease.
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Alternative form of cut down to size [To humble or humiliate, especially someone or something that is perceived as overly domineering or too proud.]
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(intransitive) To manipulate a display (such as a computer screen) so as to make the image smaller and possibly less detailed.

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