English Dictionary

subduction

IPA（発音記号）

/səbˈdʌkʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object. / (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

日本語の意味

他の物体の下に押し込まれたり、引き込まれたりする作用 / 地質学において、あるテクトニックプレートが別のプレートの下に沈み込む現象

Subduction along the convergent margin caused the older oceanic plate to descend beneath the continental plate.

収束境界での沈み込みにより、古い海洋プレートが大陸プレートの下に沈み込んだ。

意味（1）

The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.

意味（2）

(geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.

意味（3）

The act of subducting or taking away.

threatened the subduction of his own presence

意味（4）

Arithmetical subtraction.

the other Operation of Arithmetick , namely , Subduction

意味（5）

(mathematics, mathematical analysis) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.

Accordingly, a diffeological principal S¹-bundle over a diffeological space X is a subduction π : P → X and a smooth map τ satisfying the same conditions; see [30] for a thorough discussion.

subductions （ plural ）