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inflow

inflow noun: the act or process of flowing in or into.

Noun

inflow (countable and uncountable, plural inflows)

  1. The act or process of flowing in or into.
  2. Anything which flows in or into.
    • The inflow of air.
    • According to Farside Investors’ data, spot ETH exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded net inflows of roughly $2.4 billion in the past six trading days, well above the $827 million in net inflows into spot BTC ETFs during the same period.2025 July 25, Rakesh Upadhyay, “Price predictions 7/25: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, HYPE, XLM, SUI”, in Cointelegraph, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2025
  3. (figuratively) Influence from outside.
    • But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."2000, Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure
    • Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.2008, Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity

Verb

inflow (third-person singular simple present inflows, present participle inflowing, simple past and past participle inflowed)

  1. To flow in.
    • the discusing and drying up of the inflowed Humour1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC

inflow meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

inflow in Tamil

வரத்து, உட்பாய்வு, உள் ஒழுக்கு, உள்நோக்கி ஒட்டம், உள்ளோட்டம்

inflow in Malayalam

അന്തർപ്രവാഹം, അകത്തേക്ക് ഒഴുകൽ, ഉള്ളിലേക്കൊഴുകുന്നത്

inflow in Kannada

ಒಳಹರಿವು

Examples of inflow in a sentence

  • Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.
  • The chemocline fluctuated at depth probably because of seasonal variations of inflows and circulation patterns in the forebay.
  • The cause of meromixis in Green Lake is the inflow of saline ground-water springs below a depth of about 20 m.

All 16 example sentences with inflow

Synonyms of inflow

Antonyms

Forms of inflow

Noun
pluralinflows
Verb
third-person singular presentinflows
present participleinflowing
past participleinflowed
pastinflowed

Plural of inflow: inflows

Origin of inflow

From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- + flow.

Questions about inflow

What does inflow mean?
Inflow means the act or process of flowing in or into.
What is inflow in Tamil?
Inflow in Tamil is வரத்து, உட்பாய்வு, உள் ஒழுக்கு. See Inflow meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inflow?
Inflow can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of inflow?
The plural of inflow is inflows.

Words near inflow in the dictionary

  1. inflorations
  2. inflorescence
  3. inflorescenced
  4. inflorescences
  5. inflorescent
  6. inflow
  7. inflowed
  8. inflowing
  9. inflowings
  10. inflows
  11. influ

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inflow (page history and authors); inflow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inflow (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inflow (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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