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REDUCTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reductive mean?
• REDUCTIVE (adjective)
The adjective REDUCTIVE has 1 sense:
1. characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment
Familiarity information: REDUCTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment
Context example:
their views of life were reductive and depreciatory
Similar:
subtractive (constituting or involving subtraction)
Derivation:
reduce (cut down on; make a reduction in)
Context examples
Most phosphoramide mustards are administered as prodrugs that undergo reductive activation in hypoxic environments to yield cytotoxic metabolites.
(Phosphoramide Mustard, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes glucose-6-phosphate 1-dehydrogenase protein, is involved in the production of NADPH, an electron donor in both reductive biosynthetic reactions and protection against oxidizing agents.
(G6PD wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
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