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Subduction

noun
/səbˈdʌkʃən/
Word Frequency: 0.5

Definitions

1.nounThe action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
2.nounThe process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
3.nounThe act of subducting or taking away.
4.nounArithmetical subtraction.
5.nounA surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.

Synonyms

dippingaccretionophiolitessubmergementplungesubduingsubversionsubduementsubmergerdetrusionsubdualsubduer
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