INTRUSION


Meaning of INTRUSION in English

— intrusional , adj.

/in trooh"zheuhn/ , n.

1. an act or instance of intruding.

2. the state of being intruded.

3. Law.

a. an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property.

b. a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.

4. Geol.

a. emplacement of molten rock in preexisting rock.

b. plutonic rock emplaced in this manner.

c. a process analogous to magmatic intrusion, as the injection of a plug of salt into sedimentary rocks.

d. the matter forced in.

[ 1250-1300; ME intrusion- (s. of intrusio ), equiv. to L intrus ( us ), ptp. of intrudere to INTRUDE (equiv. to intrud- v.s. + -tus ptp. suffix, with dt s ) + -ion- -ION ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .