Reducing

Examples

• As the magnet recedes from the coil, it carries lines of force away with it, this time reducing the number of the lines which cut the coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some chemical and other processes for reducing ores have been referred to in the Chapter on Metallurgy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These latter rolls were also face-lined with chilled-iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one-half-inch size, or smaller. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Reducing my speed I circled and came to the ground at the feet of the astonished Zodangan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• By reducing the rate of interest, therefore, from ten to five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What I would direct then, is that you commence at once reducing baggage to the very lowest possible standard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The agglomerated product must be porous so as to afford access of the furnace-reducing gases to the ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As is well known, the Hudson River, for the length of Manhattan Island, is approximately a mile wide, reducing in width at the Palisades north of Hoboken. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I took charge, reducing the speed to about twelve miles an hour, and brought the train of seven cars to her destination at the Grand Trunk junction safely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I soon saw that he was reducing my size. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Increase in temperature therefore introduces three elements of disturbance, all of which act in the same direction of reducing the speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here were two machines destined to be joined together, economizing space, enhancing economy, augmenting capacity, reducing investment, and increasing dividends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For cheapening the cost of buttonholes, and reducing the hand labor, various buttonhole machines and attachments to sewing machines have been devised. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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