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countable and uncountable, plural inflows
The act or process of flowing in or into examples
Anything which flows in or into examples
(figurative) Influence from outside. quotations examples
But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."
2000, Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure
Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
2008, Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity
Open yourself completely to the inflow and influence of the music and light of God through daily practice of the spiritual exercises, which he gives to you.
2010, Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality
third-person singular simple present inflows, present participle inflowing, simple past and past participle inflowed
To flow in. quotations examples
the discusing and drying up of the inflowed Humour
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […]