Difference between Reducing and Reduction

What is the difference between Reducing and Reduction?

Reducing as a noun is action of the verb to reduce while Reduction as a noun is the act, process, or result of reducing.

Reducing

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Action of the verb to reduce

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That causes reduction

Example sentence: I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

Reduction

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act, process, or result of reducing.The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)

Example sentence: If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

We hope you now know whether to use Reducing or Reduction in your sentence.

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