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Definitions: Incursion |
IncursionNoun1. The act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers); "the incursion of television into the American livingroom". 2. An attack that penetrates into enemy territory. 3. The mistake of incurring liability or blame. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incursion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Etymology: Incursion \In*cur"sion\, noun. [Latin expression incursio: compare to the French expression incursion. See Incur.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: IncursionSynonym: penetration (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at. |
Ingress | Noun: ingress; entrance, entry; introgression; influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption; ingression; penetration, interpenetration; illapse, import, infiltration; immigration; admission; (reception); insinuation; (interjacence); insertion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Incursion |
| English words defined with "incursion": Bordraging ♦ Decursion, Depredatory, Dragonnade ♦ Flanks of a frontier ♦ Razzia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incursion": safe haven. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Incursion" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (foray, incursion, inroad, invasion, raid). |
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Economic History | Uganda | In October 1978, Tanzanian armed forces repulsed an incursion of Amin's troops into Tanzanian territory. (references) |
Vietnam | Following Vietnam's December 1978 invasion of Cambodia, China launched a retaliatory incursion over Vietnam's northern border. (references) | |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Rwandan Hutu militia forces (Interahamwe), who had fled Rwanda following the ascension of a Tutsi-led government, had been using Hutu refugees camps in eastern Zaire as a basis for incursion against Rwanda. (references) | |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The IDF conducted an internal investigation concerning the Jenin incursion. (references) |
Colombia | Three persons, not among those reported kidnaped, were killed in separate incidents and confirmed dead after this incursion. (references) | |
Liberia | There were no further developments in the November 2000 attacks reportedly in northeastern Nimba, which resulted in numerous deaths; it was unclear whether the rebel incursion was from Guinea or Cote d'Ivoire. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | Tensions between General Musharraf and Prime Minister Sharif had grown following Pakistan's incursion across the Line of Control into Kargil in the Indian-administered Kashmir and Sharif's subsequent decision to withdraw in July 1999. Upon assuming power, Musharraf announced an ambitious reform agenda?which included fighting corruption, devolving power to the local level, and fighting sectarianism. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Incursion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incursion" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 73 | 39,105 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
incursion | 6 |
runway incursion | 4 |
incursion voyages.com | 3 |
cambodian incursion | 2 |
incursion prevention runway system | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incursion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | inkursion (raid), sulm i papritur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غزوة (foray, inroad), غارة (descent, inroad, pinch, raid, sortie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нахълтване (inpouring, invasion, irruption, raid), нахлуване (encroachment, indraft, indraught, inpouring, invasion, irruption, raid, razzia, rush), нашествие (inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, razzia), навлизане (encroachment, penetration), нападение (aggression, assault, attack, foray, offence, offense, onfall, onset, strike, thrust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 侵略 (Aggression, invade, Invaded, invading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vtrhnutí, vpád (inroad, invasion, irruption, raid), nájezd (raid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تهاجم (Agression, Inroad, Invasion), تعدی (Abusive, Infringe, Inroad, Oppression), تاخت وتاز (Attack, Inroad, Invasion, Onset, Raid, Ravage), تاراج وحمله . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | intrusion (intrusion), incursion (inroad, invasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einfall (freak, idea, ideas, incidence, inroad, invasion, notion, onset, thought, touch, vagary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εισβολή (inroad, intrusion, invasion, irruption, onrush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פליש" (invasion), ח"יר" (infiltration, inroad, penetration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | portyázás (prowl, prowling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | serbuan (agression, assault, invasion, onset), penjebolan (breaking down or through of, inroads). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | incursione (foray, inroad, raid, swoop), scorreria (raid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 入寇 (invasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にゅう"う (encroachment, entrance into drift or pit, entry into port, frankincense, invasion, matriculation, olibanum, paying tribute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soiaghey (beset, determine, fix, implant, installation, let, letting, mounting, pitch, place, plant, posture, repose, seat, set, set up, setting, settle, situate, situation, station, synchronize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incursionay incursão (excursion, foray, inroad, invasive, raid), desleixado (careless, floppy disk, forgetfulness, frumpish, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slouch, slovenly, uncared for, untidy). (various references) invazie (invasion), incursiune (excursion, foray, inroad, raid), nãvalã (aggression, assault, attack, influx, inrush, invasion, onrush, push, rush). (various references) вторжение (encroachment, inbreak, inroad, intrusion, invasion, irruption, penetration). (various references) foghail (a hostile incursion). (various references) upad (inbreak, inroad, intrusion, invasion), prepad (attack, foray, hold up, inroad, raid). (various references) incursión (foray, inroad, invasion, raid). (various references) intrång (derogation, encroachment, impingement, infringement, infringment, inroad, intrusion, invasion, penetration, perpetration, trespass, trespassing), infall (crotchet, fancy, freak, idea, irruption, on the occasion of, vagary, whim, whimsicality), räd (forage, foray, raid), fientligt anfall. (various references) istila (infestation, invasion, irruption, spreading over), tecâvüz (aggression, an outrage upon decency, assault, breaking in, desecration, encroachment, infraction, infringement, inroad, intrusion, invasion, offence, offense, outrage, rape, trespass, violence), hücum (access, aggression, assault, attack, bully, charge, dash, forage, offensive, onrush, onset, raid, rush, scrimmage, sortie, storm, thrust), baskın (descent, dominant, forage, foray, heavy, inroad, irruption, overpowering, predominant, preponderant, prepotent, raid, sudden attack, surprise, swoop), akın (afflux, exodus, flow, foray, inflow, influent, influx, inroad, inrush, invasion, irruption, raid, razzia, rush, spate). (various references) вторгнення (depredation, encroachment, inbreak, inruption, intrusion, irruption, penetration, rejection), проникнення (incision, ingress, insinuation, penetration, permeation, pervasion, vision). (various references) sự xâm nhập, sự đột nhập (foray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adventu, adventui, adventum, adventus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incursion": incursions. (additional references) | |
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"Incursion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incario, incurrsion, incusion, intursion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incursion" (pronounced i'nker"zhun) |
| 5 | -k er" zh u n | excursion. |
| 4 | -er" zh u n | aspersion, aversion, conversion, dispersion, diversion, immersion, inversion, perversion, reversion, submersion, subversion, version. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, exclusion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, implosion, incision, inclusion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, supervision, television, transfusion, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: unicorns. | |
-2 letters: incisor, nuncios, ricinus, unicorn. | |
-3 letters: conins, cornus, cousin, curios, incurs, inions, inurns, ionics, ironic, nuncio, orcins, ricins, uncini, unions, unison. | |
-4 letters: cions, coins, coirs, conin, conns, conus, corns, cornu, curio, curns, icons, incur, incus, inion, inurn, ionic, irons, noirs, noris, nouns, orcin, ornis, ricin, rosin, ruins, runic, scion, scorn, scour, sonic, uncos. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: coinsuring, incursions. | |
+2 letters: instruction. | |
+3 letters: incrustation, incurvations, instructions, insurrection, internuncios, reunionistic. | |
+4 letters: contributions, daunorubicins, functionaries, incongruities, incorruptions, incrustations, incuriousness, instructional, insurrections, introductions, misconstruing, nondiscursive, preinductions, rediscounting, renunciations. | |
+5 letters: circumventions, communitarians, configurations, counterpoising, countersigning, countersinking, insurrectional, micronutrients, mispronouncing, neuroscientist, perniciousness, pronunciations, reconstituting, reconstitution, reinoculations, reunifications, superinduction, superinfection, uncircumcision, uncompromising, unconformities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 75 72 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. ..- .-. ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c u r s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 0075 0072 0073 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438069878485758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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