The difference between Elevation and Reduction

When used as nouns, elevation means the act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher, whereas reduction means the act, process, or result of reducing.


check bellow for the other definitions of Elevation and Reduction

  1. Elevation as a noun:

    The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.

    Examples:

    "the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character"

  2. Elevation as a noun:

    The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.

  3. Elevation as a noun:

    That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.

    Examples:

    "A hill is an elevation of the ground."

  4. Elevation as a noun:

    The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.

    Examples:

    "the elevation of the pole, or of a star"

  5. Elevation as a noun:

    The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.

  6. Elevation as a noun:

    The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.

  7. Elevation as a noun:

    The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.

  8. Elevation as a noun (architecture):

    A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.

  9. Elevation as a noun (Christianity):

    The raising of the host—representing Christ's body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

  1. Reduction as a noun:

    The act, process, or result of reducing.

  2. Reduction as a noun:

    The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.

    Examples:

    "A 5% reduction in robberies"

  3. Reduction as a noun (chemistry):

    A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.

  4. Reduction as a noun (cooking):

    The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.

  5. Reduction as a noun (mathematics):

    The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.

  6. Reduction as a noun (computability theory):

    a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.

  7. Reduction as a noun (music):

    An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.

  8. Reduction as a noun (philosophy, phenomenology):

    A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)

  9. Reduction as a noun (medicine):

    A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.