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Intrusion

Intrusion Meaning & Definition
Intrusion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Intrusion?

[n] entrance by force or without permission or welcome
[n] entry to another's property without right or permission
[n] any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts"
[n] rock produced by an intrusive process
[n] the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation

Synonyms | Synonyms for Intrusion: encroachment | encroachment | invasion | trespass | usurpation | violation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Intrusion: access | admission | alienage | alienism | encroachment | entrance | entree | entry | exteriority | extraneousness | extrinsicality | foreignness | import | importation | importing | impropriety | inappropriateness | inauspiciousness | income | incoming | inconvenience | incursion | inexpedience | infelicity | infiltration | infraction | infringement | ingoing | ingress | ingression | inopportuneness | inopportunity | input | inroad | insertion | insinuation | intake | intempestivity | intercurrence | interjacence | interlocation | intermediacy | interpenetration | interposition | interposure | interruption | intervenience | intervention | introduction | introgression | irrelevance | lateness | leakage | nonassimilation | nonconformity | overstepping | penetration | percolation | prematurity | reception | sandwiching | seepage | transgression | trespass | unfavorableness | unfitness | unfittingness | unfortunateness | unpropitiousness | unripeness | unseasonableness | unsuitability | untimeliness | usurpation | wrongness

See Also | actus reus | entering | entering | entrance | entrance | entry | geological process | incoming | ingress | inroad | misconduct | rock | stone | wrongdoing | wrongful conduct

Intrusion In Webster's Dictionary

\In*tru"sion\, n. [Cf. F. intrusion. See {Intrude}.] 1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment. Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should be private? --Addison. 2. (Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another. 3. (Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession. 4. (Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

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