irreducible: Meaning and Definition of

ir•re•duc•i•ble

1. not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further: the irreducible minimum.
2. incapable of being brought into a different condition or form.
1. of or pertaining to a polynomial that cannot be factored.
2. of or pertaining to a group that cannot be written as the direct product of two of its subgroups.