Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Going in; entering.

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  • adjective going in; entering

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Examples

  • For example, for the observer outside the horizon, is there any finite time-interval T such that, if he labels the ingoing particle which is passing him at a particular moment “A”, and then labels the outgoing particle that is passing him T later “B”, that the worldlines of A and B would actually have crossed somewhere inside the horizon?

    Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007

  • All the ingoing nervous impulses affect respiration through the outgoing impulses that pass along the nerves to the muscles; that is, the ingoing impulses pass up by the nerves from the lungs to the centre, and thence along other nerves to the respiratory muscles.

    Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881

  • Even the latest historians of philosophy complain that there is up to the present day no "ingoing" (as the Germans say) monograph about Scotus and none about Occam. [

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

  • An hour's time saw the sled loaded with the ingoing mail and grub, fresh dogs harnessed, and a fresh Indian engaged.

    Chapter V 2010

  • First came the courier and the half-breed who had hauled him out from Bennett; then mail-carriers for Circle City, two sleds of them, and a mixed following of ingoing Klondikers.

    THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

  • The White House is on the right track ingoing after the Chamber and Karl Rove's secretive and possibly foreign funding.

    Mike Lux: Populist Surge or Muddled Message Overwhelmed by Money? Mike Lux 2010

  • Also, Murdoch's paper will have no outgoing or ingoing links, which David Carr at the New York Times found odd "at a time when the ecosystem of news is driven by links."

    'Project,' first iPad-only magazine, hits app-stands Melissa Bell 2010

  • Today the ingoing and outgoing space traffic was free and unhindered.

    Good Night, Mrs. Calabash 2010

  • He told his story straight, in his harsh, crackling voice, speaking in the local dialect with the local speech pattern of glottal stops and swallowed words and sentences spoken on an ingoing breath.

    A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

  • You are either more outgoing and social (E) or more private and ingoing (I).

    Now What? Nicholas Lore 2008

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