subduction

subduction definitions

noun
  • The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary. 

  • The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object. 

  • Arithmetical subtraction. 

  • A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source. 

  • The act of subducting or taking away.