Ingression

Origin

ingress + -ion

Full definition of ingression

Noun

1. The act or process of entering or intrudingingression of the sea onto land
2. (metaphysics) The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality
• ... it is by virtue of the individual essence that an eternal object remains precisely the same eternal object through all its ingressions ...
3. (biology) The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation
• Ingression of ectodermal cells from the area between the velar lobes establishes the cerebral ganglia and similar ingressions produce the other ganglia.

Related terms

• ingressive
• ingressor
• aggression
• egression
• progression
• transgression