ingress

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She found that it had but a single means of ingress, the narrow pass through which the brook found outlet.

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  1. noun A going in or entering.
  2. noun Right or permission to enter.
  3. noun A means or place of entering.

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  • For the first phenomenon (accelerated ingress) the choice of stations is not good; but for the other phenomena (retarded ingress, accelerated egress, retarded egress) there appears to be no difficulty.—With regard to the Numerical Lunar Theory: Respecting the discordance of Annual Equation, I suspend my judgment. —  Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
  • Because the VR-2 was designed without the rugged spec for drop and liquid ingress (although it still offers a high level of protection form these accidents), it saves significant budget over fully rugged solutions while still providing the rugged protection that matters in vehicle deployments. —  Officer.com: Top News Stories
  • These create tall, close-walled canyons with no easy ingress or egress … for gathering together, for marching-for hurrying toward or away from, if need be. —  The Moderate Voice
  • Ketika interface processor menerima paket dari network media di input interface atau ingress, paket tsb harus disimpan di buffer atau memory (1) dan di saat yg bersamaan harus meng - interrupt main processor (2) untuk memberi tahu ada paket yg harus diproses. —  Living In The Fast Lane
  • Jadi paket akan disimpan di local memory interface ingress, kemudian di copy ke central memory melalui komunikasi bus yg bisa diakses interface mana saja, dan kemudian egress tujuan akan meng-copy paket tsb ke local memory nya. —  Living In The Fast Lane
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English ingresse, from Latin ingressus, from past participle of ingredī, to enter : in-, in; see in-2 + gradī, to step; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ingress; = Spanish ingreso = Portuguese Italian ingresso, from Latin ingressus, a going into, from ingrei, past participle ingressus, go into: see ingredient. Cf. congress, egress, etc.
  2. from Latin ingressus, past participle of ingredi, go into, enter: see ingredient.
 

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