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infiltration

[ in-fil-trey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act or process of infiltrating.
the state of being infiltrated.
something that infiltrates; an infiltrate.
Military.
1. a method of attack in which small bodies of soldiers or individual soldiers penetrate the enemy's line at weak or unguarded points in order to assemble behind the enemy position and attack it from the rear, harass enemy rear-area installations, etc.
2. a system of transporting troops or vehicles at extended and irregular intervals so as to avoid enemy observation or attack, especially from the air.
Geology. the seepage of water into soil or rock. Compare percolation ( def 3 ).

First recorded in 1790–1800; infiltrate + -ion

The military commission this week was to focus on the alleged FBI infiltration of one of the defense teams.

Police sources informed Reforma that both action are considered “high risk” and ripe for “anarchist infiltration.”

Though Yousef was active in the West Bank Hamas, Gaza would have been attainable infiltration.

Infiltration, though, may well taint all main rebel factions.

There are nearly 2,000 African migrants held in internment camps in the Negev desert as a result of the Anti-Infiltration Law.

If this had been finished the waters would perhaps have invaded it by infiltration.

Another possible source of loss is the infiltration of small particles of alloy into the cupel.

Old Hadley has become a prototype of what may become general if this racial infiltration is not soon checked.

American ideals and institutions have borne and can bear a great deal of foreign infiltration.

There was very general carbonaceous infiltration throughout the lungs, without excavations to any extent.

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