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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