inflow

English

Etymology

From Middle English inflowen, equivalent to in- +‎ flow.

Noun

inflow (countable and uncountable, plural inflows)

1. The act or process of flowing in or into.
2. Anything which flows in or into.

   The inflow of air.

   • 2025 July 25, Rakesh Upadhyay, “Price predictions 7/25: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, HYPE, XLM, SUI”, in Cointelegraph‎^[1]:

     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.

3. (figurative) Influence from outside.
   • 2000, Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure:

     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."

   • 2008, Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity:

     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.

   • 2010, Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality:

     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.

Synonyms

• influx

Antonyms

• outflow
• outflux

Related terms

• inflood

Translations

a flow in

• Bulgarian: втичане n (vtičane), вливане (vlivane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流入 (zh) (liúrù)

• Danish: indstrømning c
• Finnish: sisäänvirtaus
• French: afflux (fr) m
• German: Zufluss (de) m
• Greek: εισροή (el) f (eisroḯ)
• Japanese: 流入 (ja) (りゅうにゅう, ryūnyū)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innstrømming m or f, innstrømning m or f

• Russian: прито́к (ru) m (pritók)

Verb

inflow (third-person singular simple present inflows, present participle inflowing, simple past and past participle inflowed)

1. To flow in.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

     the discusing and drying up of the inflowed Humour

Anagrams

• flowin'