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Ingress

Ingress \In"gress\, n. [L. ingressus, fr. ingredi. See Ingredient.]

  1. The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.

  2. Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.

  3. (Astron.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

Ingress

Ingress \In"gress\, v. i. To go in; to enter. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ingress

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.

Wiktionary
ingress

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) To intrude or insert oneself

WordNet
ingress
  1. n. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: immersion] [ant: egress, egress]

  2. the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: entrance, entering, entry, incoming]

Wikipedia
Ingress

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 level that electrical appliances provide against intrusion of physical objects
  • Ingress router, a source label switch router
  • Ingress, egress, and regress, property law terms
  • Ingress cancellation, a technology to digitally remove in-channel ingress
Ingress (video game)

Ingress is an augmented-reality massively multiplayer online location-based game developed by Niantic, originally part of Google. The game was first released exclusively for Android devices on November 15, 2012, and was made available for Apple's iOS on July 14, 2014. The game has a science fiction back story with a continuous open narrative. Ingress was also considered to be a location-based exergame.

Unlike many other MMOGs, the competition in Ingress is primarily between the two opposing factions (teams) rather than between individual players, and players never interact directly in the game or suffer any kind of damage other than temporarily running out of XM (the power that fuels all actions except movement and communication). The gameplay consists of capturing "portals" at places of cultural significance, such as public art, landmarks, monuments, etc., and linking them to create virtual triangular "control fields" over geographical areas. Progress in the game is measured by the number of "mind units" (MUs) captured via such control fields, i.e. people nominally controlled by each faction (as illustrated on the Intel Map). The necessary links between portals may range in length from meters to kilometers or hundreds of kilometers, created in operations of considerable logistical complexity. International links and fields are not uncommon, as Ingress attracted an enthusiastic following in cities worldwide amongst both young and old, to the extent that the gameplay is itself a lifestyle for some, including tattoos. Gameplay relies heavily on the player physically moving about the community in order to interact with portals. Playing in a vehicle is possible, but increases in speed disable some features of the game. This is done to encourage physical activity and safe driving, and also discourages GPS spoofing.

In addition to the main interactive map, called the Scanner, players also have access to a "COMM" tab that displays local and regional, even worldwide, live activity going on within the game, such as faction progress and activity, in-game communication, and alerts.

Each player, or "Agent", also has a profile page that is viewable by any other agent using the mobile app. Profiles contain a wide variety of information, including the agent's name, current level and AP (Action Points), earned badges, completed missions, and a long list of statistics. Players can choose to withhold most of the statistical information from appearing on their page, instead leaving visible only their badges, AP and mission list. Also available on the profile page, if the agent so decides, is a link to their Google+ page.

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.