"subduction" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /səbˈdʌkʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-subduction.wav Forms: subductions [plural]
Etymology: From Latin subductio; see Latin sub, ductio. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dewk-}}, {{lena}}, {{der|en|la|subductio}} Latin subductio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} subduction (countable and uncountable, plural subductions)
  1. The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary. Wikidata QID: Q176318 Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology Translations (process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another): subducció [feminine] (Catalan), alityöntö (Finnish), subduktio (Finnish), subduction [feminine] (French), הַפְחָתָה (hafḥatá) (Hebrew), szubdukció (Hungarian), alábukás (Hungarian), subduzione [feminine] (Italian), subductiō [feminine] (Latin), подвлекување (podvlekuvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), āinga whakararo (Maori), subduksjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), subduksjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), subdução [feminine] (Portuguese), субду́кция (subdúkcija) [feminine] (Russian), subducción [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-subduction-en-noun-en:Q176318 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another': 21 68 8 0 3
  3. The act of subducting or taking away. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  4. Arithmetical subtraction. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  5. (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mathematical analysis, Mathematics
    Sense id: en-subduction-en-noun-hk68Ijc1 Topics: mathematical-analysis, mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: subduction zone Related terms: subduct Coordinate_terms: obduction

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          "text": "Earthquakes on the subduction interface itself are low-angle thrusts in the depth range 15–45 km, generally reaching a maximum depth of 20 km in the west and 45 km in the centre of the arc, near Crete.",
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        "(geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary."
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          "ref": "1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC:",
          "text": "threatened the subduction of his own presence",
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          "ref": "2012, Konrad Waldorp, “A construction of string 2-group models using a transgression-regression technique”, in Clara L. Aldana, Maxim Braverman, Bruno Iochum, Carolina Neira Jiménez, editors, Analysis, Geometry, and Quantum Field Theory, American Mathematical Society, page 107:",
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          "text": "Subductions (art. 1.46) express a global behavior of some surjections. As we localized the notion of induction and then obtained the notion of local induction (art. 2.15), the notion of subduction can be localized, or refined, as well, and leads to the concept of local subduction. Exercise 61, p. 60, illustrates the case where a subduction is not everywhere a local subduction.",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subducció"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "word": "alityöntö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "word": "subduktio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subduction"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hafḥatá",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "word": "הַפְחָתָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "word": "szubdukció"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "word": "alábukás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subduzione"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subductiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "podvlekuvanje",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "подвлекување"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "word": "āinga whakararo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "subduksjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "subduksjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subdução"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "subdúkcija",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "субду́кция"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "process of one tectonic plate being pushed beneath another",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "subducción"
    }
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