deduction

Universal Words noun 1 [U,C] the process of using information you have in order to understand a particular situation or to find the answer to a problem: He arrived at the solution by a simple process of deduction. * If my deductions are correct, I can tell you who the killer was. * We can examine the bones of dinosaurs and make deductions about how they lived. seealsoDEDUCE compareINDUCTION(3) 2 [U,C] the process of taking an amount of sth, especially money, away from a total; the amount that is taken away: deductions from your pay for tax, pension contributions, etc. * tax deductions