ingression

noun
/ɪnˈɡɹɛʃən/

Etymology

From ingress + -ion.

  1. derived from ingressus
  2. suffixed as ingression — “ingress + ion

Definitions

  1. The act or process of entering or intruding.

    • ingression of the sea onto land
  2. The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality.

    • […] it is by virtue of the individual essence that an eternal object remains precisely the same eternal object through all its ingressions […]
  3. The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation.

    • Ingression of ectodermal cells from the area between the velar lobes establishes the cerebral ganglia and similar ingressions produce the other ganglia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ingression. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA