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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ingress \In"gress\, noun [L. ingressus, fr. ingredi. See {Ingredient}.]
1. The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.
2. Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.
3. (Astron.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ingress \In"gress\, verb (used without an object) To go in; to enter. [R.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ingress
noun
1: (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: {immersion}] [ant: {egress}, {egress}]
2: the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: {entrance}, {entering}, {entry}, {incoming}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "ingress": access, adit, admission, admittance, air lock, approach, channel, come in, conduit, corridor, course, ditch, duct, egress, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, exit, gangplank, gangway, go in, hall, in, ingression, inlet, intake, means of access, opening, passage, passageway, penetrate, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, vestibule, way, way in
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