Meaning of INTRUSION
| Pronunciation: | | in'troozhun
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- [n] entrance by force or without permission or welcome
- [n] entry to another's property without right or permission
- [n] any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts"
- [n] rock produced by an intrusive process
- [n] the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation
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INTRUSION is a 9 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | encroachment, encroachment, invasion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| | See Also: | | actus reus, entering, entering, entrance, entrance, entry, geological process, incoming, ingress, inroad, misconduct, rock, stone, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*tru"sion\, n. [Cf. F. intrusion. See {Intrude}.]
1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the
forcing (one's self) into a place without right or
welcome; encroachment.
Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should
be private? --Addison.
2. (Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or
metal state, into the cavities of another.
3. (Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate
or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in
remainder or reversion has taken possession.
4. (Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over 3
congregation without their consent.
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| | Related Terms: | | access, admission, alienage, alienism, encroachment, entrance, entree, entry, exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality, foreignness, import, importation, importing, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, income, incoming, inconvenience, incursion, inexpedience, infelicity, infiltration, infraction, infringement, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inopportuneness, inopportunity, input, inroad, insertion, insinuation, intake, intempestivity, intercurrence, interjacence, interlocation, intermediacy, interpenetration, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervenience, intervention, introduction, introgression, irrelevance, lateness, leakage, nonassimilation, nonconformity, overstepping, penetration, percolation, prematurity, reception, sandwiching, seepage, transgression, trespass, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, usurpation, wrongness |
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