History
- Lithic reduction, in Stone Age toolmaking, to detach lithic flakes from a lump of tool stone
- Reduction can refer to the siege and capture of a fortified place
- Reduction (Sweden), return to the Crown of fiefs that had been granted to the Swedish nobility
- Indian Reductions, settlements in Spanish America intended to assimilate Indians
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