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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
deduction
 
SYLLABICATION:de·duc·tion
PRONUNCIATION:  d-dkshn
NOUN:1. The act of deducting; subtraction. 2. An amount that is or may be deducted: tax deductions. 3. The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing. 4. Logic a. The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific. b. A conclusion reached by this process.
 
 
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