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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or involving ingress.
- adjective Grammar Inchoative.
- adjective Linguistics Of or being a speech sound produced with an inhalation of breath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Entering; denoting entering on or beginning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective going or directed
inward ,entering - adjective open to entry or examination
- adjective phonetics, of a speech sound Uttered by drawing
air inward through themouth ornose . - adjective geology descriptive of a
source orchannel through which water enters or once entered an area. - noun phonetics A
speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through themouth ornose .
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