Beneath vs. Subduction
Beneathadverb
Below or underneath.
Beneathpreposition
Below.
Beneathpreposition
In a position that is lower in rank, dignity, etc.
Beneathpreposition
Covered up or concealed by something.
Beneathpreposition
Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
Beneathpreposition
Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.
Beneathpreposition
Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.
Beneathadverb
In a lower place; underneath.
Beneathadverb
Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.
Beneathadverb
in or to a place that is lower
Subductionnoun
The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
Subductionnoun
(geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
Subductionnoun
The act of subducting or taking away.
Subductionnoun
Arithmetical subtraction.
Subductionnoun
A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
Subductionnoun
The act of subducting or taking away.
Subductionnoun
Arithmetical subtraction.
Subductionnoun
a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic 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.
