Reform
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Reform means to change, usually a reversion to what is perceived to be a pure original state. It has been used for any change thought to be positive, however.
Reform can refer to:
In politics:
- Reform movement, a generic term for various social and political movements.
- Reform Movement (disambiguation), a list of specific organizations known as the Reform Movement.
- Reform Party, a list of parties calling themselves the Reform Party or variants thereof.
- Reform Act, a common name for electoral-reform bills in the United Kingdom; they are usually differentiated by their year.
- Reform (think tank), a think-tank in the United Kingdom that promotes deregulation, competition in UK public services, and a low-tax economy.
- Reforming Movement, a French centrist political group created in 1972
- La Reforma, a period of liberal reforms in Mexico after 1855
In religion:
- Reform Judaism, a major denomination of Judaism with principles influenced by the Enlightenment.
- Reform (Anglican), an evangelical organisation within the Anglican Church.
- Wesleyan Reform Union, an independent group of Methodists in the United Kingdom.
In chemistry:
- Catalytic reforming, a process that converts the hydrocarbons in various oil refinery naphthas into higher octane hydrocarbons for use as components of gasoline or feedstock to processes for the extraction of BTX (benzene, toluene and xylenes).
- Steam reforming, also called hydrogen reforming or catalytic oxidation, a method of producing hydrogen from hydrocarbons
Reform can also refer to:
- Reform, Alabama, a town in western Alabama.
- In Japan, "reform" is a wasei-eigo term referring to renovation.
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