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Definition of Subductions
1. subduction [n] - See also: subduction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subductions
Literary usage of Subductions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History by David Masson (1859)
"... as well as in individuals, are caused by additions and subductions of the
general vital energy with which Humanity is charged; if it is supposed that ..."
2. British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History by David Masson (1859)
"... as well as in individuals, are caused by additions and subductions of the
general vital energy with which Humanity is charged; if it is supposed that ..."
3. Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century: Including by Isaac Barrow, John Flamsteed, John Wallis, Stephen Peter Rigaud, Isaac Newton (1841)
"... but not with advantage, for it will require the extraction of roots to fourteen
or fifteen places, besides a greater number of additions, subductions, ..."
4. Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary: From by John Dundas Cochrane (1824)
"To make up these immense subductions, another and another portion of water is
added to the spirit, all of which is valued to the poor peasant as genuine. ..."
5. Travels in Russia, the Krimea, the Caucasus, and Georgia by Robert Lyall (1825)
"tween the vice-governors of the provinces, the farmer-generals and their clerks,
all of whose " immense subductions" are paid by new additions of water to ..."
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