subduction
Meanings
Plural: subductions
Noun
- a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
- 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.
- The act of subducting or taking away.
- Arithmetical subtraction.
- A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin subductiō, from subdūcere (“to draw from under or below”).
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