The difference between Growth and Reduction

When used as nouns, growth means an increase in size, number, value, or strength, whereas reduction means the act, process, or result of reducing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Growth and Reduction

  1. Growth as a noun:

    An increase in size, number, value, or strength.

    Examples:

    "'Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China."

  2. Growth as a noun (biology):

    The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.

  3. Growth as a noun (biology):

    Something that grows or has grown.

  4. Growth as a noun (pathology):

    An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

  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.

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