Subduction - English meaning
Subduction – definitions in English dictionary
nounThe sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
Usage examples:
Subduction zone
nounA situation in which of one of the earth's plates (= large layer of rock that the earth's surface is made of) slides under another, often causing an earthquake or volcano
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Word origin
1970s: via French from Latin subductio(n- ), from subduct- ‘drawn from below’, from the verb subducere .
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