Definition of Ingression

1. n. Act of entering; entrance.

Definition of Ingression

1. Noun. The act or process of entering or intruding ¹

2. Noun. (metaphysics) The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality ¹

3. Noun. (biology) The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ingression

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingression

ingratiatingly
ingratiation
ingratiations
ingratiatory
ingratitude
ingratitudes
ingrave
ingravescent
ingravidation
ingredient
ingredients
ingress
ingressed
ingresses
ingressing
ingression
ingressions
ingressive
ingressively
ingressiveness
ingressives
ingroove
ingrooved
ingrooves
ingrooving
ingross
ingrossed
ingrosses
ingrossing
inground

Literary usage of Ingression

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Growth in Length: Embryological Essays by Richard Assheton (1916)
"The split caused by its ingression below the surface becomes archenteron—as ... The "lips" formed by the ingression, become ipso facto the secondary growth ..."

2. The Past Tenses in French: A Study of Certain Phases of Their Meaning and by Gustav George Laubscher (1909)
"Again the compound tenses show a marked facility in stressing ingression, since hy them actions may be expressed as completed which, in reality, ..."

3. Syracuse University Publications: Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory (1905)
"Second, multipolar ingression of certain primitive ectoderm cells bodily into the ... 70), iu which there occurs a similar ingression as in the former case, ..."

4. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"To make a lower or inferior inference, to deduce an inference from one already made.—'Bp. Hall. SUB-Ingression, ». An entrance or ingression—at a lower or ..."

5. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"... Thomas T. and Edward T. shall not take any ingression and fynes &c. but only ... my will y1 my said son Thorn's shall not take any ingression &c. of any ..."

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