Synonyms of the word

deduction

• n. That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
• n. A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off.
• n. (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows…
• n. A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out.
• n. The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason.

adjustment

• n. The action of adjusting something.
• n. The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
• n. The settling or balancing of a financial account.
• n. The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
• n. The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.

allowance

• n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting.
• n. Acknowledgment.
• n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty,…
• n. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
• n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
• n. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries.
• n. A child's allowance; pocket money.
• n. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing…
• n. (obsolete) approval; approbation.
• n. (obsolete) license; indulgence.
• v. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

diminution

• n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
• n. The act or process of making diminutive.
• n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

discount

• v. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
• v. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
• v. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
• v. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
• v. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount.
• n. A reduction in price.
• n. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment…
• n. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
• adj. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

entailment

• n. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.

illation

• n. The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.

implication

• n. (uncountable) The act of implicating.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
• n. (countable, usually in the plural) a possible effect or result of a decision or action.
• n. (countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which…
• n. (countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B…
• n. Logical consequence.

inference

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
• n. (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed…

reasoning

• n. Action of the verb to reason.
• n. The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination.
• n. A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
• v. present participle of reason.

reduction

• n. The act, process, or result of reducing.
• n. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
• n. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen…
• n. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
• n. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
• n. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction…
• n. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
• n. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness…
• n. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

step-down

• adj. That decreases in stages.
• adj. (of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage.

subtraction

• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.
• n. (arithmetic, countable) A calculation involving subtracting.
• n. The removal of something.

synthesis

• n. The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
• n. (chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
• n. (logic) A deduction from the general to the particular.
• n. (philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
• n. (military) In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information…
• n. (rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.

write-down

• n. a depreciation, or a lowering in the price or value of something.

write-off

• n. (accounting) The cancellation of an item; the amount cancelled or lost.
• n. Something that is now worthless (such as a car after an accident).
• v. Nonstandard spelling of write off.