alityöntö — meaning in English
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English meaning
- subduction noun The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
Senses
alityöntö is used for these senses in English:
- subduction (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
subduction — full definition
- noun The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
- noun 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.