Intrusion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of intruding or the condition of being intruded on.
  • n. An inappropriate or unwelcome addition.
  • n. Law Illegal entry upon or appropriation of the property of another.
  • n. Geology The forcing of molten rock into an earlier formation.
  • n. Geology The rock mass produced by an intrusive process.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The forcible inclusion or entry of an external group or individual; the act of intruding.
  • n. Magma forced into other rock formations; the rock formed when such magma solidifies.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
  • n. The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The settlement of a minister over a congregation without their consent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of intruding; the act of entering without warrant or justification; unbidden, unwelcome, or unfit entrance into or upon anything.
  • n. Specifically, in law: A wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, say for life, and before the freehold remainderman or reversioner can enter.
  • n. In English law, any trespass committed on the public lands of the crown, as by entering thereon without title, holding over after a lease is determined, taking the profits, cutting down timber, and the like.
  • n. Usurpation, as of an office.—
  • n. A thrusting or pushing in, as of something out of place; irregular or abnormal entrance or irruption: as, an intrusion of foreign matter; the intrusion of extrinsic rocks or dikes in a geological formation. See intrusive rocks, under intrusive.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. rock produced by an intrusive process
  • n. the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation
  • n. any entry into an area not previously occupied
  • n. entrance by force or without permission or welcome
  • n. entry to another's property without right or permission
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stone    rock    geologic process    geological process    entrance   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    encroachment   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    allusion    collusion    conclusion    confusion    contusion   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    interruption    interference    intruder    invasion    disturbance   
     
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