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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
subduction /səbˈdʌkʃ(ə)n/

▶noun Geology the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.

– derivatives
subduct verb.

– origin 1970s: via Fr. from L. subductio(n-), from subduct-, subducere ‘draw from below’.

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