1. ingressive - Noun
2. ingressive - Adjective
Going or directed inward, entering.
Open to entry or examination.
The chances that your Internet activity is being monitored are low, despite the ingressive nature of the modern Internet environment.
(phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
(grammar) Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
(geology) Being a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
This spring is the ingressive source of the water that flows through the cave.
ingressive (plural ingressives)
(phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through the mouth or nose.
The airstream The essence of a click is a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism. Source: Internet
The enclosed pocket of air is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (in technical terminology, clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism ). Source: Internet
Some languages have stops made with other mechanisms as well: ejective stops ( glottalic egressive ), implosive stops ( glottalic ingressive ), or click consonants ( lingual ingressive ). Source: Internet
This is an example of a rare pulmonic ingressive phone. Source: Internet