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Ingo
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- 1 The frame of a door, window, fireplace, or similar structure.
"The ingoes of a second window in the wing of the Tower at first floor level were found in the east wall. The masonry of one of these ingoes has been incorporated in the north ingo of the large slapping at this part of the College foyer."
- 2 Initialism of international non-governmental organization. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 A substance or thing that has gone in.
"An accurate record was kept of all of the ingo, and all the outgo from the cows."
- 4 The act or process of going in.
"We may pass by a large number of truly mental phenomena as not being necessarily attended with consciousness, and in these the relation of the transformation of Energy, or the doing of work, is probably the same as obtains in ordinary vital or metabolic action, viz., the ingo of force through stimuli and pabulum exactly balances the outgo in the form of heat, mechanical movement, and the potential energy still remaining in the living matter, or its products, while nothing is counted for the peculiar properties given by the state of organism."
Etymology
From in- + go.
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