transitive verb
-·fied·, -·fy·ing to make simpler, less complex, etc.; make easier
Origin of simplify
French simplifier from Medieval Latin simplificare: see simple and -fy
A good way to simplify your morning routine is to organize your breakfast ingredients together on one shelf.
- An example of simplify is when you explain a tough math concept in really easy terms for a child to understand.
- An example of simplify is when you cut out a lot of the activities that were making you busy and stressed.
Simplify is to make something less complicated or less cluttered.
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simplify
transitive verb
sim·pli·fied, sim·pli·fy·ing, sim·pli·fiesTo make simple or simpler, as:
a. To reduce in complexity or extent.
b. To reduce to fundamental parts.
c. To make easier to understand.
Origin of simplify
French simplifier from Old French from Medieval Latin simplificāre Latin simplus simple ; see simple . Latin -ficāre -fyRelated Forms:
- sim′pli·fi·ca′tion
noun
- sim′pli·fi′er
noun
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present simplifies, present participle simplifying, simple past and past participle simplified)
- To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
- To become simpler.
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Sentence Examples
- Here the symmetry points at once to the selection of the three principal axes as the directions for i, j, k; and it would appear at first sight as if quaternions could not simplify, though they might improve in elegance, the solution of questions of this kind.
- To simplify this, we take a new unit Y, which is 2 of X.
- These equations simplify very much in their application to plane waves.
- These points, together with a truly turned and polished cylinder, with carefully planned means of adjustment, much simplify the preparation of making-ready of any kind of type-forme or blocks for printing, which is carried out much in the same way as on the ordinary single cylinder, but in a more convenient manner.
- There is not a single branch of the law which he did not simplify and amend, and the iron firmness with which he caused justice to be administered, irrespective of persons, if it exposed him to the charge of tyranny from the nobles, also won for him from the common people the epithet of " the Just."
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