subduction
Diagram of the subduction of an oceanic plate beneath a continental plate. The subduction zonesubduction zone, indicated by the red circle, is often where earthquakes occur.
Meaning
Noun
- 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
- From Latin subductio; see Latin sub, ductio.
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