subduction
/səbˈdʌkʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone."
- "Evidence for a subduction polarity flip is clear in the Irish Caledonides, where the S-dipping slab beneath the Lough Nafooey arc (Dewey & Ryan 1990; Clift & Ryan 1994) became a N-dipping subduction zone after the Grampian Orogeny."
- "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."
- "threatened the subduction of his own presence"
- "the other Operation of Arithmetick , namely , Subduction"
- "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."
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Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /səbˈdʌkʃən/