Ingression
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˈɡɹɛʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ingression is a noun meaning The act or process of entering or intruding.
Meaning
The act or process of entering or intruding.
More Meanings
- (metaphysics) The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality.
- (biology) The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation.
Example Sentences
ingression of the sea onto land
[…] it is by virtue of the individual essence that an eternal object remains precisely the same eternal object through all its ingressions […]
Ingression of ectodermal cells from the area between the velar lobes establishes the cerebral ganglia and similar ingressions produce the other ganglia.
Word Forms
- ingressions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intrusion, influx, infiltration, infil, penetration, input.
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