subduction

About 0.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

dipping accretion ophiolites submergement plunge subduing subversion subduement submerger detrusion

Often followed by

zone zones of and complex in is process along

Word family

subduct subducted subducting subductions subducts