intrusive
Meanings
adj
- Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
- Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
- epenthetic
- Designating a type of collection in which each item keeps track of what collection it is in, rather than the more conventional approach of a collection keeping track of what items it contains. An intrusive collection does not "own" its contents and a single item can be part of multiple intrusive collections.
noun
- An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
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Etymology
Back-formation from intrusion, + -ive.
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