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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Affording passage to an inflowing current.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Running inward; entrant: with reference to the place of entrance or inflow: as, an incurrent orifice.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Characterized by a current which flows inward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Carrying inward; relating to an inward current.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin incurrēns, incurrent-, present participle of incurrere, to run upon; see incur.]

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From Latin incurrēns (stem incurrēnt-), present active participle of incurrō ("run into, towards or upon") (whence also incur), from in + currō ("run").

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