Ingress

Quick meaning: Ingress is a noun meaning The act of entering.

Meaning

The act of entering.

More Meanings

1. A permission to enter.
2. A door or other means of entering.
3. (astronomy) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
4. (intransitive) To intrude or insert oneself
5. (transitive, US, chiefly military) To enter (a specified location or area)
6. (intransitive, astrology, of a planet) To enter into a zodiacal sign
7. (Whiteheadian metaphysics) To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression

Example Sentences

All ingress was prohibited.

I could find no means of ingress. Every window and door was fastened and locked, and I returned baffled to the porch.

Now could be beheld that change from the handsome to the curious which the features of a wood undergo at the ingress of the winter months.

Accordingly, anti-Israeli terrorists turned to city transport. Railway systems depend on easy ingress and egress at numerous points along the route.

Word Forms

• ingresses
• ingressing
• ingressed

Synonyms for ingress

Depending on context, synonyms include entrance, entry, entering, incoming.

Antonyms for ingress

Common opposites include egress.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entering, entry, entrance, incoming, enter, access.

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