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Ingress
is always a great word to know.
So is summer solstice. Does it mean:
| either of the two times a year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator that takes place about June 21 and about December 22 |
| marking the time when the sun is at the north most point from the celestial equator occurring around June 21 |
Example Sentences
- The difficulty of obtaining ingress to the hall, owing to the crowd that.
- Huge doors make a joke of the clown-car ingress and egress you'll suffer from many subcompacts.
- It's an invasion, with helicopters and supply lines and routes of ingress and escape.
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World English Dictionary
| ingress (ˈɪŋɡrɛs) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act of going or coming in; an entering |
| 2. | a way in; entrance |
| 3. | the right or permission to enter |
| 4. | astronomy another name for immersion |
| [C15: from Latin ingressus, from ingredī to go in, from gradī to step, go] | |
| ingression | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
ingress
early 15c., from L. ingressus "entrance," from pp. stem of ingredi "to step into, enter" (see ingredient).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
ingress
in astronomy, the apparent entrance of a smaller body upon the disk of a larger one as the smaller passes between the larger and the observer-e.g., the entrance of a satellite or its shadow on the disk of a planet. The term is also applied to the Moon's entrance into the Earth's shadow at the start of a lunar eclipse and to the Sun's entrance into a zodiacal constellation.
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