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The act of entering
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ingress
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ingress may refer to: Ingress (signal leakage) , the passage of an outside signal into a coaxial cable Ingress filtering , a computer network packet filtering technique Ingress (video game) , an augmented reality game Ingress protection rating , a protection ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ingress \In"gress\, n. [L. ingressus, fr. ingredi. See Ingredient .] The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs. Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited. (Astron.) The entrance ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of entering. 2 permission to enter. 3 A door or other means of entering. 4 (context astronomy English) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc. vb. (context intransitive English) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin ingressus "an advance; walking; an entry," from past participle stem of ingredi "to step into, enter" (see ingredient ). The verb, sometimes said to be American English, is attested from early 14c.
Usage examples of ingress.
After, that is, stooping over and retrieving the morning paper for her, and after, in turn, her voluminous hoopskirts, with her in them, had moved far enough off from the door opening to give him ingress.
Following their system of perfect isolation from the world to its logical sequence, the Jesuits surrounded all the territories of their different towns with walls and ditches, and at the gates planted a guard to prevent egress or ingress between the missions and the outer world.
It was the Unit, not Karen, whose impenetrable shield held stubbornly every circular mil of advantage gained in making such ingress.
The victims must have been sitting with their backs toward the window, and, from the time elapsing between the ingress of the beast and the screams, it seem probable that it was not immediately perceived.
It was considerably smaller than the one that ingressed from the west, there being far less traffic to and from the northern reaches of the city than from east or west or from the south, where the town faced the river.
All ingresses through a given gate would have a similar 'signature', like DNA from different members of the same family, and others could be tracked using it.
All ingresses through a given gate would have a similar ‘signature’, like DNA from different members of the same family, and others could be tracked using it.
Send one home after the last inbound refueling, then send another home just before ingressing Indian country.
A fresh ingress through the malfunctioning gate would be the best thing we could hope for.
A great crowd had collected on the Highlands of the Navesink to watch the ingress of the tidal wave.
It signaled the ingress into the actual target area, generally the most dangerous part of the mission and necessitating a series of precise maneuvers so the bomb or missile could be launched.
Pearson dragged deeply on the cigarette and looked toward the revolving doors which gave ingress upon all the gloomy depths and cloudy heights of The First Mercantile.
The sumo wrestler's name was Rakishi, and legend had it he really had been a sumo before bad knees had relegated him to ruling the ingress with guest list and stun-stick.
As her mother finished with each plant, Ingress would water it with her tiny watering can.
On the other side of the door, I could hear a faint chunking across wood chips as my visitor retreated in search of some other means of ingress.