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Subduction
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Meaning
Noun
●
The
action
of being
pushed
or
drawn
beneath
another object.
●
In Geology:
The process of one
tectonic plate
moving
beneath
another and
sinking
into the
mantle
at a
convergent
plate
boundary.
●
The
act
of
subducting
or
taking
away.
●
Arithmetical subtraction.
●
In Mathematical analysis & Mathematics:
A
surjection
between
diffeological
spaces
such that
the
target
is
identified
as the
pushforward
of the source.
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