intrusion

[in·tru·sion]

An intrusion is a deliberate move into someone else's territory either literal or figurative. When your sister interrupts your conversation with that girl from math class, that's an intrusion. If someone breaks into your home, that's also an intrusion.

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The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.

Noun
entrance by force or without permission or welcome

Noun
entry to another''s property without right or permission

Noun
any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts"

Noun
rock produced by an intrusive process

Noun
the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation

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n.
The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.

n.
The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.

n.
The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

n.
The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.


Intrusion

In*tru"sion , n. [Cf. F. intrusion. See Intrude.] 1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should be private?
2. (Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another. 3. (Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession. 4. (Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.

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Usage Examples

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

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Other Usage Examples

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

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