Ingression

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of entering, as into union or incorporation with something; a passing into or within.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act of entering; entrance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act or process of entering or intruding
  • noun. The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality
  • noun. The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation
  • Word Usage
    "Now our first impression is that at last we have come to the simple plain fact of where the object really is; and that the vaguer relation which I call ingression should not be muddled up with the relation of situation, as if including it as a particular case."