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1. Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.
2. <mathematics> Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula.
<mathematics> Irreducible case, a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore fails in its application. Irredu"cibleness, Irredu"cibly.
(01 Mar 1998)
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