Subduction
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /səbˈdʌkʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Subduction is a noun meaning The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
Meaning
The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
More Meanings
- (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.
Example Sentences
threatened the subduction of his own presence
the other Operation of Arithmetick , namely , Subduction
Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.
Accordingly, a diffeological principal S¹-bundle over a diffeological space X is a subduction π : P → X and a smooth map τ satisfying the same conditions; see [30] for a thorough discussion.
Word Forms
- subductions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dipping, accretion, ophiolites, submergement, plunge, subduing.
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