INTRUSION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Intrusion

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪntrˈuʒən/ Listen

Intrusion

noun

Any entry into an area not previously occupied. Synonyms: encroachment, invasion. "An invasion of locusts"

Entrance by force or without permission or welcome.

The forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation.

Rock produced by an intrusive process.

Entry to another's property without right or permission. Synonyms: encroachment, trespass, usurpation, violation.

See more definitions of Intrusion...

See images of 'Intrusion'

Etymology of 'Intrusion'

Related search:

electromagnetic intrusion

Share |

"Intrusion" Quotes from Famous Books

... guard against the intrusion of Clothes moths (Tinea), while many other species of minute moths (Tineids) and of Leaf-rollers (Tortricidae) will be flying about orchards and gardens just as the buds are beginning to unfold; especially ...

— Our Common Insects - A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, - Gardens and Houses • Alpheus Spring Packard

... withering glance, Doctor X. Ray left the room and the house. His reputation was such as to admit of no intrusion. ...

— Advanced Chemistry • Jack G. Huekels

... Maimonides has no position of authority in the Synagogue, modern times have witnessed no successful intrusion of a rival. Most writers of treatises on Judaism prefer to describe rather than to define the religious tenets of the faith. In America there have been several suggestions of a Creed. Articles of faith have been there chiefly formulated for the reception of proselytes. ...

— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

... father," replied she, calmly; "but it appears to me not seemly that you should enter the chamber of a young woman during her husband's absence. I might have been in my bed. It is a strange intrusion." ...

— The Phantom Ship • Captain Frederick Marryat

... no longer considered as vermin to be exterminated whenever the opportunity presented itself. For the first time in Virginia's history, the Indian was considered to have an unquestioned legal right to the land. The setting aside of a reservation for the Indians into which English intrusion was forbidden marked the end of the "perpetual enmity" policy of earlier days. When differences arose, they might still be settled by peace or by war, but the right of either side to exist would ...

— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn

More quotes...