subduction

/səbˈdʌkʃən/noun
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1

The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.

2

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

3

The act of subducting or taking away.

4

Arithmetical subtraction.

5

A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.