irreducible
/ˌɪrɪˈdjuːsəbəl/
adjective
- Impossible to make smaller, simpler, or less complex.
- After many attempts, the puzzle remained irreducible to a simpler form.
- The scientist argued that some basic laws of physics are irreducible.
- The artist believed that beauty is an irreducible quality of the human experience.
- In mathematics, unable to be factored or simplified into smaller parts.
- The polynomial was irreducible over the real numbers.
- The theorem applies only to irreducible matrices.
- Students learned to identify irreducible fractions in class.
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