ingress

Noun

ingress (countable and uncountable, plural ingresses)

1. The act of entering.
   • Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and...1859, Charles Dickens, “In Secret”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 168
   • 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.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   Antonyms:

   egress

2. A permission to enter.
   • All ingress was prohibited.
   • My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress. And then, from unseen lips, a cruel and mocking peal of laughter rang through the desolate place.1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell]...
3. A door or other means of entering.

   Antonyms:

   egress

4. The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

Verb

IPA/ɪŋˈɡɹɛs/

ingress (third-person singular simple present ingresses, present participle ingressing, simple past and past participle ingressed)

1. (intransitive) To intrude or insert oneself
   • "Were you asleep? Did I disturb you?" he would ask, seeing Fyodor flat on his back on the sofa, and then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor 's feet1963, Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift: A Novel, page 198
   • When the tub was full I ingressed into the water gently, insinuating my body in a bit at a time, enjoying the sensual pleasure of the extreme heat on the lower part of my body […]2001, Lynda Schor, “My Death”, in Moyra Davey, editor, Mother Reader, →ISBN, page 310
2. (US, transitive) To enter (a specified location or area)
   • "We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.1976, The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories, page 108
   • We were ingressing the target area.1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry, →ISBN, page 93
3. (intransitive) To enter into a zodiacal sign
   • The middle of March finds " Mars ingressing upon the 16th degree of Capricorn, where the sun has arrived in the nativity of Lord Palmerston," […]1861 December 28, “Almanacs”, in All the Year Round, volume VI
4. (Whiteheadian metaphysics) To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression

Proper noun capitalized: Ingress

Ingress

1. A surname.