Associations to the word «Ingress»

Wiktionary

INGRESS, noun. The act of entering.
INGRESS, noun. Permission to enter.
INGRESS, noun. A door or other means of entering.
INGRESS, noun. (astronomy) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
INGRESS, verb. (intransitive) To intrude or insert oneself
INGRESS, verb. (transitive) (US) (chiefly military) To enter (a specified location or area)
INGRESS, verb. (intransitive) (astrology) (of a planet) To enter into a zodiacal sign
INGRESS, verb. (Whiteheadian metaphysics) To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression
INGRESS, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

INGRESS, noun. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse.
INGRESS, noun. The act of entering; "she made a grand entrance".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.