Usually means: Cannot be simplified or reduced.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word irreducible:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. irreducible: Merriam-Webster
  2. irreducible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. irreducible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. irreducible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. irreducible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Irreducible, irreducible: Wordnik
  7. irreducible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. irreducible: Wiktionary
  9. irreducible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. irreducible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. irreducible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. irreducible: Dictionary.com
  13. Irreducible (philosophy): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Irreducible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. irreducible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. irreducible: Rhymezone
  17. Irreducible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. irreducible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. irreducible: FreeDictionary.org
  20. irreducible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. irreducible: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. irreducible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irreducible: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irreducible: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. irreducible: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. irreducible: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irreducible: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irreducible, irreducible, irreducible, irreducible, irreducible, irreducible: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See irreducibility as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not able to be reduced or lessened.
adjective:  Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a polynomial) Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x² + 1).
adjective:  (number theory, of a fraction) Whose numerator and denominator share no common factor greater than 1.
adjective:  (number theory, of an integer) Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
adjective:  (algebra, of an element of a ring) Whose only divisors are units and associates.
adjective:  (algebraic geometry, of an algebraic variety) Inexpressible as the union of two proper algebraic subvarieties.
adjective:  (topology, of a manifold) Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
adjective:  (group theory, of a representation) Impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation.
noun:  (mathematics) Such a polynomial

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