subduction
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subduction
- /səbˈdʌkʃən/ UK
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From Latin subductiō, from subdūcere (“to draw from under or below”). Equivalent to subduct + -ion or subduce + -tion.
noun subductions
- The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
- The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary. Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.
- The act of subducting or taking away. threatened the subduction of his own presence
- Arithmetical subtraction. the other Operation of Arithmetick , namely , Subduction
- A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source. Accordingly, a diffeological principal S¹-bundle over a diffeological space X is a subduction π : P → X and a smooth map τ satisfying the same conditions; see [30] for a thorough discussion.
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noun process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another
| Español | subducción |
|---|---|
| Português | subdução |
| Français | subduction |
| Italiano | subduzione |
| Русский | субду́кция subdúkcija |
| עברית | הַפְחָתָה hafḥatá |
Talk about this word "subduction." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/subduction. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. subduction. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/subduction "subduction." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/subduction.Cite this
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title = {subduction},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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