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INTRUSION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Entrance by force or without permission or welcomeplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Entry to another's property without right or permissionplay

Synonyms:

encroachment; intrusion; trespass; usurpation; violation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

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

inroad (an encroachment or intrusion)

Derivation:

intrude (enter uninvited)

intrude (enter unlawfully on someone's property)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any entry into an area not previously occupiedplay

Example:

an invasion of locusts

Synonyms:

encroachment; intrusion; invasion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

entering; entrance (a movement into or inward)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Rock produced by an intrusive processplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

geologic process; geological process ((geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We have no excuse for an intrusion upon his privacy until we have some reason to think that there is a guilty reason for it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A - The number of intrusions while recalling List B.

(ADNI AVLT - List B Intrusions, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

"A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The total number of words and intrusions is tallied for each trial.

(Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Auditory Verbal Learning Test Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A (ADNI-AVLT Version A) The number of intrusions while recalling List A, first attempt.

(ADNI AVLT - List A Intrusions 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A - The number of intrusions while recalling List A, first attempt.

(ADNI AVLT - List A Intrusions 1, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A - The number of intrusions while recalling List A, second attempt.

(ADNI AVLT - List A Intrusions 2, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A (ADNI-AVLT Version A) The number of intrusions while recalling List A, sixth attempt (after List B recall).

(ADNI AVLT - List A Intrusions 6, NCI Thesaurus)

Nay, Henry might stand between me and the intrusion of my foe.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Auditory Verbal Learning Test Version A - The number of intrusions while recalling List A, fifth attempt.

(ADNI AVLT - List A Intrusions 5, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)




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