Word Finder - intrusion

definition

The forcible inclusion or entry of an external group or individual; the act of intruding.

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He viewed sales calls as an unwelcome intrusion.

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Magma forced into other rock formations; the rock formed when such magma solidifies.

Alex had invited her to look at his financial files any time she wanted, and yet it seemed an intrusion on his privacy.

They formed a barrier against all intrusion.

There are students of the 15th century in France who resent this intrusion of the Italian Renaissance.

Firewalls stop intrusion attempts and prevent many threats getting through.

He seemed to resent the intrusion of a human being in such an unfrequented spot.

Ordinary citizens resent the intrusion of government into intimate decisions.

The current position of the new lamppost which was much taller was causing light intrusion in the upper story of the house.

The synagogue later apologized to Rabbi Carr for " unwarranted intrusion into aspects of her private life.

During bereavement a break can seem a daunting prospect, even an unwelcome intrusion.

If separation of the continents occurred before kimberlite intrusion in Africa, then the Falklands would be unlikely to have diamond-bearing kimberlite intrusion in Africa, then the Falklands would be unlikely to have diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes.

Instead, upon notifying the affected product vendor, 3Com provides its customers with zero day protection through its intrusion prevention technology.

This assembly by the intrusion of strangers became so tumultuous that it grew into disuse.

But before discussing this matter, we must follow out the consequences of Lavater's intrusion into Mendelssohn's affairs.

These tribes have been subject to the intrusion from the south of more recent Bantu folk, such as the Yao, belonging to the Ama-Zulu branch of the race, while from the north there has been an immigration of Hamito-Negroid peoples.

Agents tracked the intrusion to their apartment, which was searched, revealing the purloined information.

Parts of a Castle The many different parts of Medieval Castles were essential for ensuring a safe retreat against intrusion or invasion.

The core component of a security system involves what kind of intrusion the system is monitoring.

Intrusion Detecting Systems - These systems will regularly check your computer for intruders who are looking to steal your information.

They are thought to represent an intrusion of REM sleep/dreaming into the wakeful state.

A proclamation now continued the "state of religion" begun the previous year; but mass was celebrated in the queen's household, and Lord James himself defended it with his sword against Protestant intrusion.

Millions of years ago there was a volcanic dolerite intrusion into the overlying rock.

In doing so they must address the possibility of collateral intrusion.

Apart from Susa, the most important part of the country was Anzan (Anshan, contracted Assan), where the native population maintained itself unaffected by Semitic intrusion.

Any attempt on the part of the Church to exercise discipline was resented as an intrusion.

East of the Taupo plateau and south of Opotiki on the Bay of Plenty the steep thickly-timbered ranges held by the Uriwera tribe still show scenery quite unspoiled by white intrusion.

So much value was attached to this source of wealth that as early as 1050 strangers were excluded from the furtrade of Finmark, and a kind of coast-guard prevented their intrusion.

Anglicanism was regarded as a symbol of conquest and intrusion.

If you will permit one more intrusion, we will go and retrieve both the madman and the Ancient.

Processes affecting groundwater chemistry in a zone of saline intrusion into an urban sandstone aquifer.

They are usually painted a matt gray to minimize visual intrusion but are situated in dense clusters.

Network intrusion detection sensors are usually built around low level models of network traffic.

The design places great emphasis on minimizing intrusion on the landscape.

To confer on Prince Albert every honour that the crown could bestow, and to let him make his way gradually into public favour by his own tact, was the advice which Lord Melbourne gave; and the prince acted upon it so well, avoiding every appearance of intrusion, and treating men of all parties and degrees with urbanity, that within five months of his marriage he obtained a signal mark of the public confidence.

The Henry Mountains in south-western Utah are peculiar in owing their relief to the doming or blistering up of the plateau strata by the underground intrusion of large bodies or cisterns (laccolites) of lava, now more or less exposed by erosion.

As evidence of an intrusion of northerly folk, however, the distribution of dialects remains important.

This corruption was fatally apparent in the army, the feudal basis of which was sapped by the confiscation of fiefs for the benefit of nominees of favourites of the harem, and by the intrusion, through the same influences of foreigners and rayahs into the corps of janissaries, of which the discipline became more and more relaxed and the temper increasingly turbulent.

Although he was classed in Canada as a Liberal, his tendencies would in England have been considered strongly conservative; an individualist rather than a collectivist, he opposed the intrusion of the state into the sphere of private enterprise, and showed no sympathy with the movement for state operation of railways, telegraphs and telephones, or with any kindred proposal looking to the extension of the obligations of the central government.

The occupation began with sanguinary conflicts between the two contending waves of intrusion.

There is,1 however, also shown, as a result of the Afghan intrusion and the impotency of the later Safawid kings, a long broad strip of country to the west, including Tabriz and Hamadan, marked conquests of the Turks, and the whole west shore of the Caspian from Astrakan to Mazandaran marked conquests of the czar of Muscovy; Makran, written Mecran, is designated a warlike independent nation.

It also gave a much desired opportunity for the intrusion of other powers in the affairs of the Transvaal; 3 and it led Kruger to revive the scheme for a united South Africa under a Dutch republican flag.

The minuteness of his narrative detracts from its interest; though his arrangement is generally good, here and there the reader finds the thread of a subject broken by the intrusion of incidents not immediately connected with it, and does not pick it up again without an effort.

Many orifices through which water at first only dribbled were thus caused to discharge water with great force, and entirely free from sand, against the opposite side of the well, while the general result was to increase the inflow of water many times, and to entirely prevent the intrusion of sand.

This fact is probably due partly to the actual intrusion of warm water from the Mascarene current east of Madagascar, and partly to the circumstance that the different temperatures of the waters are so compensated by their differences of salinity that they have almost precisely the same specific gravity in situ.

If, as has already been said, one of the chief tasks of ethics is to prevent the intrusion into its own sphere of inquiry of ideas borrowed from other and alien sources, then obviously these sources must be investigated.

It bears the strongest likeness to the epic in all save its unversified form; in both are found, as fixed essentials, simplicity of plot, chronological order of events, set phrases used even in describing the restless play of emotion or the changeful fortunes of a fight or a storm, while in both the absence of digression, comment or intrusion of the narrator's person is invariably maintained.

From one stage to another, fabrics, forms and motives of decoration develop gradually; so that, at the close of a span of more than two thousand years, at the least, the influences of the beginning can still be clearly seen and no trace of violent artistic intrusion can be detected.

Russia, meanwhile, had seized the occasion to send to Constantinople an ultimatum demanding satisfaction for her own particular grievances; the Porte resented the intrusion of new demands before the others had been dealt with, and hurried on preparations for war.

For the conflicts which accompanied the first intrusion of philosophy into the theological domain more profound and cautious thinkers with a far ampler apparatus of knowledge had substituted a harmony.

And even the proposal to apply the unaided reason to solve questions which had divided the fathers must have been resented by the more rigid churchmen as the rash intrusion of an over-confident Rationalism.

It lies in a hilly district rich in coal and iron, while a hard basaltic intrusion known as Rowley rag is largely quarried.