Definition of "ingress" []

• A going in or entering. (noun)
• Right or permission to enter. (noun)
• A means or place of entering. (noun)

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• "None of the people I talked to or heard from admitted to witnessing anything more than moderate use on L-2, light use on L-1, and none at all on launch day before cabin ingress or scrub."
• "The 500-year-old bridge has been suffering "severe problems" with water ingress, which is eroding the masonry."
• "The eternal objects that "ingress" into any actual entity are something like its predicates or qualities; except that no entity can be defined as just the sum of its predicates or qualities, because it is not just a collocation of characteristics (which would be to return to "subject-predicate forms of thought")."