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
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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"
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Elevation as a noun:
The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
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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."
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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"
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Elevation as a noun:
The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
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Elevation as a noun:
The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
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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.
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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.
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Elevation as a noun (Christianity):
The raising of the host—representing Christ's body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
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Reduction as a noun:
The act, process, or result of reducing.
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Reduction as a noun:
The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
Examples:
"A 5% reduction in robberies"
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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.
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Reduction as a noun (cooking):
The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
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Reduction as a noun (mathematics):
The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
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Reduction as a noun (computability theory):
a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
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Reduction as a noun (music):
An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
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Reduction as a noun (philosophy, phenomenology):
A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
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Reduction as a noun (medicine):
A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.