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inwelling

inwelling noun: the process of flowing inward and pooling.

Noun

inwelling (plural inwellings)

  1. The process of flowing inward and pooling.
    • The last stages of deformation were accompanied by, or followed by, the inwelling or injection of magmas along the Keweenaw thrust plane.1929, Wisconsin Geological, Natural History Survey, Bulletin, page 116
    • A similar bottom inwelling occurs in the Northern Baltic (Hobro and Nyquist 1971).1973, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Kenneth Orris Emery, Structural Framework of the Sunda Shelf, page 164
  2. A growing feeling or internal sensation that causes one to feel emotionally full.
    • Like the prodigal son, "when he came to himself" when her long slumbering conscience awoke , and she felt the soft, gentle inwelling of a now thoroughly aroused soul, which made her realize a great-hearted, universal charity for erring humanity, there rose also a great pity in her heart for the...1890, Emma E. H. Specht, Alfrieda: A Novel, page 196

Adjective

inwelling (not comparable)

  1. That flows inward and pools, or gives a sense of emotional fullness.
    • This dark, passionate religiousness and inward sense of an inwelling magnificence, direct flow from the unknowable God, this filled Richard's heart first, and human love seemed such a fighting for candle-light, when the dark is so much better.1923, David Herbert Lawrence, Kangaroo, page 385
    • This inwelling energy vibrates at the frequency of the Fourth Heaven, and it is not a pipeline that linearly transports fuel from one location to another, but a holographic well.2009, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light, page 454

Examples of inwelling in a sentence

  • Outwellings and inwellings will meet at the boundary layers.1984, W. O'Reilly, Magnetism, Planetary Rotation, and Convection in the Solar System, page 368:
  • If you examine some of the planets and Sun in the Solar System you will see that 'energy inwelling's' seem to occur at either 19.5 degrees south or north of the equator.2020, David Klooz, The Eye of Ra: Robbers of the Sacred Stone, page 174:

Forms of inwelling

pluralinwellings

Questions about inwelling

What does inwelling mean?
Inwelling means the process of flowing inward and pooling.
How do you use inwelling in a sentence?
Outwellings and inwellings will meet at the boundary layers.
What part of speech is inwelling?
Inwelling can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of inwelling?
The plural of inwelling is inwellings.

Words near inwelling in the dictionary

  1. inwashes
  2. inweave
  3. inweaved
  4. inweaves
  5. inweaving
  6. inwelling
  7. inwellings
  8. inwheel
  9. inwheels
  10. inwick
  11. inwicked

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