irreducible

Plural: irreducibles

Adjective

• incapable of being made smaller or simpler
  • "an irreducible minimum"
  • "an irreducible formula"
  • "an irreducible hernia"

Adj

• Not able to be reduced or lessened.
• Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
• Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x² + 1).
• Whose numerator and denominator share no common factor greater than 1.
• Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
• Whose only divisors are units and associates.
• Inexpressible as the union of two proper algebraic subvarieties.
• Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
• Impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation.

Noun

• Such a polynomial

Antonyms

reducible, unincreasable

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