simplification

English

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simplification (logic)

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the French simplification.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.plɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.plə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.plə.fəˈkæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: sim‧pli‧fi‧ca‧tion

Noun

simplification (countable and uncountable, plural simplifications)

1. The act of simplifying or something that has been simplified.
2. (logic) A valid simple argument.

Derived terms

• lexical simplification
• text simplification

Translations

act of simplifying

Bulgarian: опростяване n (oprostjavane) Catalan: simplificació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 簡單化 / 简单化 (zh) (jiǎndānhuà), 簡化 / 简化 (zh) (jiǎnhuà) Czech: zjednodušení n Dutch: vereenvoudiging (nl) f, versimpeling (nl) f Finnish: yksinkertaistus, pelkistys (fi) French: simplification (fr) f Galician: simplificación (gl) f German: Vereinfachung (de) f Greek: απλούστευση (el) f (aploústefsi), απλοποίηση (el) f (aplopoíisi) Hungarian: egyszerűsítés (hu) Italian: semplificazione (it) f Japanese: 単純化 (ja) (たんじゅんか, tanjunka) Maori: whakarūnātanga Norwegian: Bokmål: forenkling m or f Nynorsk: forenkling f Polish: uproszczenie (pl) n Portuguese: simplificação (pt) f Russian: упроще́ние (ru) n (uproščénije) Serbo-Croatian: pojednostavljenje Spanish: simplificación f Swedish: förenkling (sv) c Tagalog: pagpayak, pamayak Turkish: basitleştirme (tr) Vietnamese: sự đơn giản hóa

French

Etymology

From simplifier +‎ -(at)ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.pli.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

simplification f (plural simplifications)

1. simplification

Descendants

• English: simplification

Further reading

• “simplification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.