subduction

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
2. (countable, uncountable) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of subducting or taking away.
4. (countable, uncountable) Arithmetical subtraction.
5. (countable, uncountable) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.

Sinonieme

consumption

displacement

ectopia

jump

passage

segue

shift

transition

Vertalings

subduction

subducción

subducció

اندساس

ZONA DE SUBDUCÇÃO

Zona de Subducção

subdução

zona de subducção

subduzione

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/səbˈdʌkʃən/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Latin subductiō, from subdūcere (“to draw from under or below”). Equivalent to subduct + -ion or subduce + -tion.