obduction

Meaning of obduction

noun
  1. the sideways and upwards movement of the edge of a crustal plate over the margin of an adjacent plate.
    movement of the ophiolite so far south before obduction is unlikely

1970s: from Latin obduct- ‘covered over’, from the verb obducere, from ob- ‘against, towards’ + ducere ‘to lead’.

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Hyphenation of obduction

ob-duc-tion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • obduction is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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