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a) **Reducing:** This term generally means to make something smaller or decrease its size, quantity, or intensity. In various contexts, it can refer to minimizing, lessening, or diminishing.
b) **Gapping:** Without more context, "Gapping" could have different meanings. In linguistics, it often refers to a syntactic ellipsis where one or more words are omitted from a clause, and their meaning is understood from the context or a preceding clause.
