inflow

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Noun

inflow

1. The act or process of flowing in or into
2. Anything which flows in or into

   The inflow of air

3. (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.

Synonyms

• influx

Antonyms

• outflow
• outflux

Related terms

• inflood

Translations

• French: afflux
• German: Zufluss
• Russian: прито́к

Verb

inflow (inflows, present participle inflowing; past and past participle inflowed)

1. To flow in.

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