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