The phrase "a kind of reduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a process or concept that simplifies or diminishes something in a particular way.
Example: "The new method is a kind of reduction in the time required to complete the project."
Alternatives: "a form of decrease" or "a type of simplification."
However, here again a word of caution is warranted: for any kind of reduction, the question is of course how far can one reduce a complex biological process, without losing characteristic features?
Such a kind of model reduction not only guarantee the FD performance, but also reduce the system dimensions.
What bothers me about the way people are discussing her is that the whole adorable/adorkable thing (to use Fox's marketing phrase) is a kind of condescending reduction.
As a kind of dimension reduction technology in multivariate analysis, factor analysis can effectively reduce numerous data into few variables, the so-called factors.
This approach can be understood as a kind of rank reduction method, whereby removing the most noisy dimensions of the received signal subspace leads to a significant improvement of the overall signal-to-noise ratio.
Ross (2005a) argues that groups of neurons thus modeled should not be identified with the sub-personal game-playing units found in Ainslie's theory of intra-personal bargaining described earlier; that would involve a kind of straightforward reduction that experience in the behavioral and life sciences has taught us not to expect.
I would argue that the laws and rules associated with driving are also a kind of harm reduction.
Consider the ridiculous solo "Whispers," in which the out-of-shape Lettie Battle danced (none too securely) a kind of choreographic reduction of the Grace Jones role in "Conan the Destroyer," wearing what seemed like some Frederick's of Hollywood vision of gladiator drag.
Generalization is a kind of dimension reduction in complex models.
