Usually means: Plate sinks beneath another, recycling.
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  1. subduction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. subduction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subduction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subduction: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Subduction, subduction: Wordnik
  7. subduction: Wiktionary
  8. subduction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. subduction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Subduction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Subduction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. subduction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. subduction: Rhymezone
  16. Subduction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. subduction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. subduction: Free Dictionary
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  2. subduction: Dictionary of Geology
  3. subduction: Natural History Terms
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  5. SUBDUCTION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subduction)

noun:  The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
noun:  (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
noun:  The act of subducting or taking away.
noun:  Arithmetical subtraction.
noun:  (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.

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