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Answer for the clue "The process of flowing in ", 6 letters:
inflow

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Word definitions for inflow in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inflow \In*flow"\, v. i. To flow in. --Wiseman.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In hydrology , the inflow of a body of water is the source of the water in the body of water. It can also refer to the average volume of incoming water in unit time . It is contrasted with outflow . Outflow is the amount of water that leaves the country. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, from in + flow (n.).

Usage examples of inflow.

For the modulation of speech is normally proprioceptive, governed by inflowing impulses from all our vocal organs.

Christina had lost this normal inflow, this afference, and lost her normal proprioceptive vocal tone and posture, and there-tore had to use her ears, auditory feedback, instead.

Our pumps can handle the inflow of seawater, and emergency crews already have the hole repaired with timbers and plates, but we still appear to be sinking.

He was conscious only of a sudden sense of peace, of the tension in him ebbing, giving way to an inflow of a beatific feeling of unmarred tranquillity.

Klia understood the Greys' functions well enoughtenders of Trantor's vast hierarchies of submission and response, allocators of resources and funding, administrators of data inflow, civic and planetary works.

The thin, searing hot gas of the convective zone poured into its triangular faces, so that the Interface was embedded in a sculpture of inflowing gas, a flower carved dynamically from the Sun's flesh.

I twisted the inflow, unscrewed the filler cap, waited for the pressurized nitrogen to hiss out, and then dumped in the jug of phage.

But they were found by three of Mablung's companions, and slowly they journeyed northward and eastward towards the fences of the land of Doriath beyond Sirion, and the guarded bridge nigh to the inflowing of Esgalduin.

The geological evidence of the similarity of ancient and modern sedimentary rocks suggests that the inflow and the outflow pretty much balance each other.