INGRESS

, in Astronomy, the sun's entrance into one of the signs, especially Aries.

INNOCENTS Day, a feast celebrated on the 28th day of December, in commemoration of the infants murdered by Herod.

INORDINATE Proportion, is where the order of the terms compared, is disturbed or irregular. As, for example, in two ranks of numbers, three in each rank, viz, in one rank, - - 2, 3, 9, and in the other rank, - - 8, 24, 36, which are proportional, the former to the latter, but in a different order, viz, - 2 : 3 : : 24 : 36, and - 3 : 9 : : 8 : 24. then, casting out the mean terms in each rank, it is concluded that - - 2 : 9 : : 8 : 36, that is, the first is to the 3d in the first rank, as the first is to the 3d in the 2d rank.

INSCRIBED Figure, is one that has all its angular points touching the sides of another figure in which the former is said to be inscribed.

Inscribed Hyperbola, is one that lies wholly within the angle of its asymptotes; as the common or conical hyperbola doth.