- 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.
- controlling undesired consequences
- Extenuation
- Lessening
- Toning-down
- The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated;
abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive,
or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity,
punishment, or penalty.
- Easing off
- Lessening
- Receding
- Subsiding
- Subsiding when tin is kept in a bag
- of Abate
- Abating
- Alleviating
- Change for the better
- Cold meal
- Facilitating leasing by ditching original laws
- Lessening
- Lessening, ... off
- Dwindling
- Lessening
- of Diminish