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INCOMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of entering
Example:
she made a grand entrance
Synonyms:
entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("incoming" is a kind of...):
arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incoming"):
incursion (the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers))
intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)
irruption (a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in)
entree (an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage)
enrollment; enrolment; registration (the act of enrolling)
penetration (the act of entering into or through something)
admission; admittance (the act of admitting someone to enter)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Entering upon a position of office vacated by another
Example:
the incoming president
Classified under:
Antonym:
outgoing (retiring from a position or office)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arriving at a place or position
Example:
incoming mail
Classified under:
Similar:
inbound; inward (directed or moving inward or toward a center)
designate (appointed but not yet installed in office)
elect (elected but not yet installed in office)
future; next; succeeding ((of elected officers) elected but not yet serving)
in (directed or bound inward)
inflowing; influent (flowing inward)
inpouring (pouring inward)
Also:
future (yet to be or coming)
Attribute:
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
Antonym:
outgoing (leaving a place or a position)
Context examples:
As Europa eclipsed Io, LBTO captured the incoming infrared light.
(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
To predict incoming space weather, scientists summarize current conditions on the sun twice daily.
(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)
"We could use it to measure incoming blood flow to the aneurysm sac to determine how well the aneurysm is healing, and to alert doctors if blood flow changes."
(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)
As in Spain, the rate was affected by incoming workforce migration from Eastern Europe.
(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)
Ventilation can also be driven by temperature differences between the inside and outside of a room, as incoming air is heated by people or equipment, resulting in a buoyancy-driven flow at a window.
(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)
Without the titanium oxide gas to absorb incoming starlight on the daytime side, the atmospheric temperature grows colder with increasing altitude.
(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)
It is lined with ciliated, pseudostratified columnar epithelium and functions to humidify, heat, and filter incoming air, as well as protecting the olfactory bulb and sinuses from incorrectly pressurized incoming air.
(Nasal Turbinate, NCI Thesaurus)
Life is good for you, dear Libra—celebrate the incoming New Year.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Globally, rainfall isn't related just to the clouds that are available to make rain but also to Earth's "energy budget" — incoming energy from the sun compared to outgoing heat energy.
(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)
The new results showed a stormy scene: particles blasted off the moon’s icy surface as a result of incoming plasma rain, and strong flows of plasma pushed between Jupiter and Ganymede due to an explosive magnetic event occurring between the two bodies’ magnetic environments.
(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)
