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Inflorescence

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

Influence

To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to affect; to move; to persuade; to induce.

Influential

Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc.

Influenza

An epidemic viral infectious disease characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever and general weakness; also called grippe. It is caused by several forms of RNA virus which mutate readily and thereby render vaccines prepared against older forms ineffective, often requiring a new form of vaccine for each new outbreak.

Influx

The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light.

Influxive

Having a tendency to flow in; having influence; influential.

Infold

To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.

Infoldment

The act of infolding; the state of being infolded.

Infoliate

To cover or overspread with, or as with, leaves.

Inform

To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

Informal

Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writing, proceeding, or visit.

Informality

The state of being informal; lack of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings.

Informant

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.

Information

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

information processing

The processing of information, especially by computers, including the organization, distribution, and frequently the analysis of data and the presentation of results in easily understood form.

information theory

The science which studies the capacity of systems to contain, store, and transmit information{2 and 4}, and the factors such as noise and channel capacity that may affect the rate or accuracy of information transmission and reception.

Informatory

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

Informed

Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.

Informer

One who informs, animates, or inspires.

Informity

Lack of regular form; shapelessness.

Infra

Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.

Infra-red Infrared

Lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end; -- said of rays having a longer wavelength (and thus less refrangible) than the extreme red rays, specifically those electromagnetic waves having a wavelength of between 700 nanometers and 1 millimeter.

Infrabranchial

Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

Infraction

The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law.

Infractor

One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker.

Infralabial

Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.

Infralapsarian

Of or pertaining to the Infralapsarians, or to their doctrine.

Inframarginal

Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain.

Inframaxillary

Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the lower iaw.

Inframedian

Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.

Infrangibility

The quality or state of being infrangible; infrangibleness.

Infrangible

Not capable of being broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms.

Infraocular

Situated below the eyes, as the antenna of certain insects.

Infraorbital

Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.

Infrared Radiation

electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of between 700 nanometers and 1 millimeter.

Infrascapular

Beneath the scapula, or shoulder blade; subscapular.

Infraspinal

Below the vertebral column, subvertebral. Below the spine; infraspinate; infraspinous.

Infraspinous Infraspinate

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

Infrastapedial

Of or pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes. The infrastapedial part of the columella.

Infrasternal

Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.

Infratrochlear

Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

Infrequent

Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual.

Infrigidation

The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation.

Infringe

To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend.

Infringement

The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.

Infringer

One who infringes or violates; a violator.

Infructuose

Not producing fruit; unfruitful; unprofitable.

Infrugal

Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time.

Infucation

The act of painting or staining, especially of painting the face.

Infula

A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white.

Infumate

To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

Infumated

Clouded; having a cloudy appearance.

Infundibulum

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

Infuneral

To inter with funeral rites; to bury.

Infurcation

A forked expansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching.

Infuriate

To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate.

infuriating

extremely annoying or displeasing; causing intense anger.

Infuscate

To darken; to make black; to obscure.

Infuscation

The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity.

Infuser

One who, or that which, infuses.

Infusibility

Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon.

Infusible

Not fusible; incapable or difficult of fusion, or of being dissolved or melted.

Infusion

The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.

Infusionism

The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to traducianism and creationism.

Infusive

Having the power of infusion; inspiring; influencing.

Infusoria

One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size. Formerly, the term was applied to any microbe found in infusions of decaying organic material, but the term is now applied more specifically to one of the classes of the phylum Ciliophora, of ciliated protozoans.

Infusorial

Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth.

Infusory

One of the Infusoria; -- usually in the pl.

Ing

A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river.

Ingathering

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.

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