About The Word Intrusion
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Intrusion
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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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