INCOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incoming mean? 

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

1. the act of entering

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

• INCOMING (adjective)
  The adjective INCOMING has 2 senses:

1. arriving at a place or position

2. entering upon a position of office vacated by another

  Familiarity information: INCOMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of entering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress

Context example:

she made a grand entrance

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

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

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

incursion (the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers))

intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)

irruption (a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in)

entree (an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage)

enrollment; enrolment; registration (the act of enrolling)

penetration (the act of entering into or through something)

admission; admittance (the act of admitting someone to enter)

• INCOMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arriving at a place or position

Context example:

incoming mail

Similar:

inbound; inward (directed or moving inward or toward a center)

designate (appointed but not yet installed in office)

elect (elected but not yet installed in office)

future; next; succeeding ((of elected officers) elected but not yet serving)

in (directed or bound inward)

inflowing; influent (flowing inward)

inpouring (pouring inward)

Also:

future (yet to be or coming)

Attribute:

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

Antonym:

outgoing (leaving a place or a position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Entering upon a position of office vacated by another

Context example:

the incoming president

Antonym:

outgoing (retiring from a position or office)

 Context examples 

These unique responses are controlled by incoming signals sent from neighboring cells at chemical communication points called synapses.

(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)

The models simulate the ability of pollen particles to interact with incoming solar radiation to understand how these particles will affect climate.

(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A magnetic field would distort the flow of incoming material close to the neutron star.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

The poor dear grew white as death, and shock and shivered, as I have seen a quicksand shake and shiver at the incoming of the tide.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Overall, the connectotype demonstrated heritability within five brain systems, the most prominent being the frontoparietal cortex, or the part of the brain that filters incoming information.

(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The percentage of solar radiation that is reflected relative to the total incoming radiation.

(Albedo, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Alkylating agents can also modify the bases of incoming nucleotides in the course of DNA synthesis.

(DNA Alkylation, NCI Thesaurus)

Incoming light passes through nerve-fibres and intermediary nerve cells of the neural retina, before encountering the light-sensitive rods and cones at the interface between neural retina and the pigmented retinal epithelium.

(Neural Retina, NCI Thesaurus)

Instead, incoming light penetrates deep into the planet's atmosphere where it is absorbed by hydrogen atoms and converted to heat energy.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

The impact that created it likely was preceded by an explosion in the Martian sky caused by intense friction between an incoming asteroid and the planet's atmosphere.

(NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater, NASA)