INFLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inflow mean? 

• INFLOW (noun)
  The noun INFLOW has 1 sense:

1. the process of flowing in

  Familiarity information: INFLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of flowing in

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

inflow; influx

Hypernyms ("inflow" is a kind of...):

flow (any uninterrupted stream or discharge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inflow"):

inpour; inpouring; inrush (an inflow)

Antonym:

outflow (the process of flowing out)

 Context examples 

Any of the eight liver segments that has its own vascular inflow, outflow, and biliary drainage, thus defined as functionally independent.

(Couinaud Liver Segment, NCI Thesaurus)

The disks themselves then create inflows to the black hole.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The ice shelf has evolved over time and ice lost by melting due to inflow of warm water is roughly balanced by the inputs of ice from feeding glaciers and snow accumulation.

(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A disease characterized by fibrotic thickening of the endocardium, particularly the right and/or left inflow tracts.

(Endomyocardial Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

While the inflow and outflow of cold molecular gas have both previously been detected, this is the first time both have been detected within one system, and hence the first evidence that the two make up part of the same vast process.

(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)