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How to pronounce “subduction”
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Pronunciation guide for subduction
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of subduction with real speech in context.
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- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity
So in this way, subduction zones are like portals into the deep earth,
- Definition summary
- The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
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How to pronounce subduction
The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity

So in this way, subduction zones are like portals into the deep earth,
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
- (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
- The act of subducting or taking away.
- Arithmetical subtraction.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
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