subduction
IPA: sʌbdˈʌkʃʌn
noun
- The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
- (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
- The act of subducting or taking away.
- Arithmetical subtraction.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
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Examples of "subduction" in Sentences
- Continued spreading and subduction.
- Perhaps by the tectonic subduction.
- Doesn't explain the word subduction.
- Deep subduction of continental crust.
- Analog modeling of the initiation of subduction.
- The process of subduction creates metamorphism in the subducting slab.
- The arc has formed due to subduction along the Cascadia subduction zone.
- These plates are destroyed by subduction into the mantle at subduction zones.
- This large oceanic plate was consumed at subduction zones see subduction zone .
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