Also increases and reductions of certain enzymes may be used as factors in a prebiotic score.

Selective reduction can also be used to reduce a twin pregnancy to a singleton one.

For special purposes, greater optical reductions may be used.

Waist reduction may be used simply to reduce the width of the waist.

For complexity classes larger than P, polynomial-time reductions are commonly used.

Normally, closed reduction, in which several methods are used to manipulate the bone and joint from the outside, is used.

A reduction from one problem to another may be used to show that the second problem is as difficult as the first.

"These forced reduction would be used to plug a budget gap because of an unwillingness to further cut excessive state spending," he said.

In large scale production the reduction of NbO with hydrogen or carbon is used.

"A reduction in force will be used if anticipated retirements do not occur," said Bird.