单词 | ingress |
释义 | ingress/ˈɪnɡrɛs![]() noun 1 [mass noun] The action or fact of going in or entering; the capacity or right of entrance.In fact, most ports are designed for easy ingress and egress....
1.1A place or means of access; an entrance.Market Street, between Sauer and Harrison streets, will form part of the square, becoming an underpass, with an ingress, or entrance, in Kort Street and egress, or exit, after Harrison Street....
1.2 [mass noun] The unwanted introduction of water, foreign bodies, contaminants, etc.It was possible to deal with complaints in this way, because although the occasions of water ingress were not isolated, usually no damage was caused or any damage that was caused to stock or to decoration was of a minor nature only....
Synonyms seepage, leakage, inundation, inrush, intrusion, incursion, entry, entrance 2 Astronomy & Astrology The arrival of the sun, moon, or a planet in a specified constellation or part of the sky.Mundane practitioners also make use of maps for the moments of New and Full Moons, eclipses and planetary ingresses (especially the Sun's ingress into Capricorn, which is considered an important predictive tool)....
2.1The beginning of a transit.As the planet is completing its ingress, instead of a simple dark disk its image seems to be distorted into the form of a rain-drop, as if a thread or ligament of material has attached it to the solar limb, pulling it out of shape. Derivativesingression
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'an entrance or beginning'): from Latin ingressus, from the verb ingredi 'enter'. |
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