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inflow
/ˈɪnˌfloʊ/
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What does inflow mean?
noun
- The act or process of flowing in or into.
- Anything which flows in or into.
- (figuratively) Influence from outside.
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verb
- To flow in.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪnˌfloʊ/
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When grinding one must attentively match the inflow to the rate of outflow because if the hopper is overfilled the tines become snarled and cease to work.
The drop in imports would have been much greater if foreign aid - worth an estimated $8 billion - had not allowed the continued inflow of essential products.
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"The first cause does not necessarily inflow any thing into the second, by force of the Essential subordination of the second causes, by which it may help it to worke?"
They harmonize the physical vibrations, relax the tissues and open them wide to the inflow of the life force.
Doubtless a similar inflow had been taking place, although at a slower rate, long before the Spaniards reached the Islands, and Tinguian mythology has grown up as the result of blending of native tales with those of other areas, the whole being worked over and reshaped until it fitted the social setting.