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ingression

Noun CEFR B2
ɪnˈɡɹɛʃən

Definitions

  1. The act or process of entering or intruding.
    countable, uncountable
  2. The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality.
    countable, uncountable
  3. The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Françaisingression

Examples

“ingression of the sea onto land⟳”
“[…] it is by virtue of the individual essence that an eternal object remains precisely the same eternal object through all its ingressions […]”
“Ingression of ectodermal cells from the area between the velar lobes establishes the cerebral ganglia and similar ingressions produce⟳ the other ganglia.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

ingressive ingressiveness Ingria Ingrian Ingrid ingrossment

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