Definitions
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 inwardcurrent .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The mouth (incurrent canal) and anus (outcurrent canal) are located at the anterior end, and while the foot extends out the posterior.
Mollusca 2007
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The Seekport News Search feature allows users to search for results incurrent stories almost immediately after they are posted online by newssources.
Archive 2006-03-01 Thatsnews 2006
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You are to understand that, through the incurrent necessities of every circumstance, each of them spoke in whispers, even now.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918
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Late in the afternoon, even before the sun has sunk, the radiation of heat from the earth, which has been going on all the while, but has been less considerable than the incurrent of temperature, in a way overtakes that influx.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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If the basin be large in proportion to the amount of the incurrent water, this evaporation may exceed the supply, and produce a sea with no outlet, such as we find in the Dead Sea of Judea, in that at Salt Lake, Utah, and in a host of other less important basins.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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"Cum tempus advenerit, quo se mundus renovaturus extinguat, viribus ista se suis cedent, et sidera sideribus incurrent, et omni flagrante materia uno igne quicquid nunc ex disposito lucet, ardebit."
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The first, the "incurrent aperture," points upstream; the animal sucks water in through it.
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The mouth (incurrent canal) and anus (outcurrent canal) are located at the anterior end, and while the foot extends out the posterior.
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Water is brought into its body through the incurrent siphon and the water is removed from its body through the excurrent siphon.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Bat-Cave 2009
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The incurrent siphon brings water into the gills and mucus secreted by the gills and the palps, which are organs surrounding the clams mouth, capture tiny bits of food
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Bat-Cave 2009
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