inflow
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- + flow.
Noun[edit]
inflow (countable and uncountable, plural inflows)
- The act or process of flowing in or into
- Anything which flows in or into
- The inflow of air
- (figurative) Influence from outside.
- 2000, Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure:
- But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."
- 2008, Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity:
- Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
- 2010, Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality:
- Open yourself completely to the inflow and influence of the music and light of God through daily practice of the spiritual exercises, which he gives to you.
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a flow in
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Verb[edit]
inflow (third-person singular simple present inflows, present participle inflowing, simple past and past participle inflowed)
- To flow in.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
- the discusing and drying up of the inflowed Humour