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ingression

/ɪnˈɡɹɛʃən/

ingression noun: the act or process of entering or intruding.

Noun

ingression (countable and uncountable, plural ingressions)

  1. The act or process of entering or intruding.
    • ingression of the sea onto land
  2. (metaphysics) The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality.
    • […] it is by virtue of the individual essence that an eternal object remains precisely the same eternal object through all its ingressions […]1967, Whitehead's Metaphysics, Edward Pols, page 164
  3. The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation.
    • Ingression of ectodermal cells from the area between the velar lobes establishes the cerebral ganglia and similar ingressions produce the other ganglia.1940, Libbie Henrietta Hyman, The Invertebrates, page 496

ingression meaning in Tamil and Urdu

ingression in Tamil

உட்புகல்

ingression in Urdu

دروازہ, دخول

Forms of ingression

pluralingressions

Origin of ingression

From ingress + -ion.

Words formed from ingression

Questions about ingression

What does ingression mean?
Ingression means the act or process of entering or intruding.
What is ingression in Tamil?
Ingression in Tamil is உட்புகல். See Ingression meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ingression?
Ingression is a noun.
How do you pronounce ingression?
Ingression is pronounced /ɪnˈɡɹɛʃən/.
What is the plural of ingression?
The plural of ingression is ingressions.

Words near ingression in the dictionary

  1. ingress
  2. ingress, egress, and regress
  3. ingressed
  4. ingresses
  5. ingressing
  6. ingression
  7. ingressions
  8. ingressive
  9. ingressively
  10. ingressiveness
  11. ingressives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ingression (page history and authors); ingression (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ingression (Urdu 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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