Definitions for reducer

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reducer re·duc·er

Spelling: [ri-doo-ser, -dyoo-]

IPA: /rɪˈdu sər, -ˈdyu-/

Reducer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in reducer (cdeerru).

Definitions for reducer

noun

1. a person or thing that reduces.
2. Photography. an oxidizing solution for lessening the density of an exposed negative. a developing agent.
3. (in plumbing) a coupling decreasing in diameter at one end. Compare increaser (def 2).

Origin of reducer

First recorded in 1520-30; reduce + -er¹

Examples for reducer

He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans; he is a reducer of surplusage.

The destroyer of enemies,” “the reducer of the disobedient,” “the exterminator of rebels,” “he whose sword is good.

Or, is it king Nala the reducer of hostile towns that hath come here?

To prepare this reducer, take one part varnish (the same varnish to be reduced), and two parts of turpentine.

The alkali sets the reducer in action and is called the accelerator.

Helen's next remark was in the natures of a reducer for the said expansion.

Very many, if not most, slides are all the better for just a touch of a "reducer" such as follows:—The ordinary "hypo."