A lessening, decrease or reduction.
a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
The act or process of making diminutive.
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
To flow back or return.
A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
The backwards flow of any fluid.
The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.