inflow en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- + flow.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The act or process of flowing in or into.
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(countable, uncountable) Anything which flows in or into.
The inflow of air.
According to Farside Investors’ data, spot ETH exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded net inflows of roughly $2.4 billion in the past six trading days, well above the $827 million in net inflows into spot BTC ETFs during the same period.
2025 July 25, Rakesh Upadhyay, “Price predictions 7/25: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, HYPE, XLM, SUI”, in Cointelegraph, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2025:
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Influence from outside.
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: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: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:
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Translations (12)
ja 流入 (a flow in) · da indstrømning (a flow in) · fr afflux (a flow in) · de Zufluss (a flow in) · nb innstrømming (a flow in) · nb innstrømning (a flow in) · ru прито́к (a flow in) · el εισροή (a flow in) · fi sisäänvirtaus (a flow in) · bg втичане (a flow in) · cmn 流入 (a flow in) · bg вливане (a flow in)