Irreducible

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Irreducible may be used to refer to many different things.

• In mathematics, the term "irreducible" is used in many different, unrelated fields; its use often follows from the denotative meaning of the word "irreducible".
• irreducible (philosophy)
• Irreducible complexity is an argument about certain biological systems that are too complex to have evolved from simpler predecessors.
• In inorganic chemistry, an irreducible representation is the basic representation of a symmetry operation in a given point group.

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