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  1. subductverb

    To push under or below.

  2. subductverb

    To move downwards underneath something.

  3. subductverb

    To remove; to deduct; to take away; to disregard.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Subduce, To Subductverb

    Etymology: subduco, subductus, Latin.

    Or nature fail’d in me, and left some part
    Not proof enough such object to sustain;
    Or from my side subducting, took perhaps
    More than enough. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

    Take the other operation of arithmetick, subduction: if out of that supposed infinite multitude of antecedent generations we should subduce ten, the residue must be less by ten than it was before, and yet still the quotient must be infinite. Matthew Hale.

Wikipedia

  1. subduct

    Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries. Where the oceanic lithosphere of a tectonic plate converges with the less dense lithosphere of a second plate, the heavier plate dives beneath the second plate and sinks into the mantle. A region where this process occurs is known as a subduction zone, and its surface expression is known as an arc-trench complex. The process of subduction has created most of the Earth's continental crust. Rates of subduction are typically measured in centimeters per year, with rates of convergence as high as 11 cm/year.Subduction is possible because the cold oceanic lithosphere is slightly denser than the underlying asthenosphere, the hot, ductile layer in the upper mantle underlying the cold, rigid lithosphere. Once initiated, stable subduction is driven mostly by the negative buoyancy of the dense subducting lithosphere. The slab sinks into the mantle largely under its weight.Earthquakes are common along the subduction zone, and fluids released by the subducting plate trigger volcanism in the overriding plate. If the subducting plate sinks at a shallow angle, the overriding plate develops a belt of deformation characterized by crustal thickening, mountain building, and metamorphism. Subduction at a steeper angle is characterized by the formation of back-arc basins.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Subductverb

    to withdraw; to take away

  2. Subductverb

    to subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct

  3. Etymology: [L. subducere, subductum; sub under + ducere to lead, to draw. See Duke, and cf. Subdue.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Subduct

    sub-dukt′, v.t. to take away, to withdraw—also Subduce′.—n. Subduc′tion. [L. sub, under, ducĕre, ductum, to lead.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of subduct in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of subduct in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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