Usually means: Inference from general to specific.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word deduction:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. deduction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deduction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deduction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deduction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deduction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deduction, deduction: Wordnik
  7. deduction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deduction: Wiktionary
  9. deduction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deduction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deduction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deduction: Dictionary.com
  13. deduction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deduction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Deduction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deduction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deduction: Rhymezone
  18. deduction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deduction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. deduction: Free Dictionary
  21. deduction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deduction: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. deduction: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deduction: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. deduction: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. deduction: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. deduction: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. DEDUCTION: Accounting Glossary
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Deduction: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. deduction: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Deduction: Management Dictionary
  12. Deduction: Investopedia
  13. deduction: Legal dictionary
  14. Deduction: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deduction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. deduction: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. deduction: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Deduction: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Deduction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Deduction: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deduction: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed
noun:  A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off
noun:  (law, finance) A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.
noun:  (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
noun:  A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out
noun:  The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason

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