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n. - The act of reducing complexity; Elimination of superfluous details; A explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity.

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  • That kind of simplification is the bane of newness.
  • I hope tax simplification is his #1 goal, as it appears to be Speaker Hastert's.
  • On language, simplification is only one thing we should have heated debates about.
  • If you had been keeping up with my garbage disposal series on ISCID, you'd know that this simplification is not quite correct.
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