reducent
English
Etymology
From Latin reducens, present participle of reducere.
Adjective
reducent (comparative more reducent, superlative most reducent)
- Tending to reduce.
Noun
reducent (plural reducents)
- A reducing agent.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reducent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Verb
redūcent
- third-person plural future active indicative of redūcō