- Arms reduction - Devaluation - Diminution in value or quantity - Lessening - The act of reducing, or state of being reduced;
conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the
reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the
reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious
province. - The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6.
and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. - The correction of observations for known errors of
instruments, etc.