Meaning of INGRESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'in`gres
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- [n] the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance"
- [n] (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
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| | Synonyms: | | entering, entrance, entry, immersion, incoming |
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| | Antonyms: | | egress, emersion | | |
| | See Also: | | accession, admission, admittance, arrival, disappearance, eclipse, enrollment, enrolment, entree, incursion, intrusion, irruption, occultation, penetration, registration | |
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\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.
\In"gress\, v. i.
To go in; to enter. [R.]
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| | Related Terms: | | access, adit, admission, admittance, air lock, approach, channel, come in, conduit, corridor, course, ditch, duct, egress, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, exit, gangplank, gangway, go in, hall, in, ingression, inlet, intake, means of access, opening, passage, passageway, penetrate, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, vestibule, way, way in |
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