Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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irreducible

/ˌɪɹɪˈdjuːsɪbəl/ adjective, noun

Forms irreducibles

  1. adjective Not able to be reduced or lessened.
  2. adjective Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
  3. adjective (mathematics, of a polynomial) Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x² + 1).
  4. adjective (number theory, of a fraction) Whose numerator and denominator share no common factor greater than 1.
  5. adjective (number theory, of an integer) Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
  6. adjective (algebra, of an element of a ring) Whose only divisors are units and associates.
  7. adjective (algebraic geometry, of an algebraic variety) Inexpressible as the union of two proper algebraic subvarieties.
  8. adjective (topology, of a manifold) Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
  9. noun (mathematics) Such a polynomial

Antonyms

unincreasable reducible

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.
  2. adjective Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case (Alg.), a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore fails in its application.

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “irreducible”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details