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subduction

/səbˈdʌkʃən/ · noun

Meaning

  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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