Meaning of DEDUCTION
| Pronunciation: | | di'dukshun
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- [n] the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"
- [n] the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- [n] reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- [n] something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
- [n] an amount or percentage deducted
- [n] a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
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| | Synonyms: | | deductive reasoning, discount, discount, entailment, implication, price reduction, subtraction, synthesis, tax deduction |
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| | Antonyms: | | addition | | |
| | See Also: | | abstract thought, adjustment, allowance, business deduction, decrease, decrease, diminution, diminution, illation, inference, logical thinking, reasoning, reduction, reduction, step-down, step-down, syllogism, tax benefit, tax break, trade discount, withholding | |
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| | Definition: | | \De*duc"tion\, n. [L. deductio: cf. F. d['e]duction.]
1. Act or process of deducing or inferring.
The deduction of one language from another.
--Johnson.
This process, by which from two statements we deduce
a third, is called deduction. --J. R. Seely.
2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the
deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
3. That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process
of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
Make fair deductions; see to what they mount.
--Pope.
4. That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement;
as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
Syn: See {Induction}.
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| | Definition: | | a process of reasoning by which more specific consequences are inferred by rigorous argument from more general propositions (cf. induction). |
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| | Related Terms: | | a fortiori reasoning, a posteriori reasoning, a priori reasoning, abatement, ablation, abrasion, abridgment, abstraction, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agio, alleviation, alliance, allowance, analysis, approximation, assemblage, association, attenuation, Baconian method, bank discount, bond, breakage, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, closeness, cogitation, combination, concession, conclusion, connectedness, connection, consequence, consequent, consideration, contemplation, contiguity, contraction, contrariety, corollary, credit, cut, dampening, damping, dealings, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deductive reasoning, deflation, deliberation, demonstration, depreciation, depression, derivation, diminishment, diminution, discount, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disjunction, dockage, drawback, dying, dying off, epagoge, erosion, extenuation, fade-out, filiation, finding, generalization, homology, hypothesis and verification, illation, induction, inductive reasoning, inference, intercourse, intimacy, judgment, junction, kickback, languishment, lessening, letup, liaison, link, linkage, linking, logical thought, lowering, meditation, miniaturization, minus, mitigation, musing, mutual attraction, nearness, particularization, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, philosophical induction, philosophy, pondering, premium, price reduction, price-cut, proof, propinquity, proximity, purification, rapport, ratiocination, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refinement, reflection, refund, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, relaxation, removal, result, rollback, rumination, sagging, salvage, scaling down, sequitur, setoff, similarity, simplicity, sophistry, specious reasoning, speculation, subduction, sublation, subtraction, sweet reason, syllogism, syllogistic reasoning, sympathy, synthesis, takeoff, taking away, tare, thinking, tie, tie-in, time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling, union, weakening, withdrawal, write-off |
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