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IN BRIEF: A small body of water leading into a larger.
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American philosopher & naturalist, writer.
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An entrance or orifice for the admission of a fluid. The term normally is used with other words as a prefix, such as in inlet air, inlet air temperature, inlet casing, inlet duct, inlet guide van, inlet port, inlet valve, etc. See inlet case.
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- Coastal Land, Islands, and the Sea - inlet: indent in shoreline, esp. narrow passage between points of land or islands, often forming entrance to lagoon
- Airframe and Engines - inlet: throat
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For the anatomical structure, see Pelvic inlet.
An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon or marsh. In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the ocean and is often called an "entrance" or a recession in the shore of a sea, lake or river. A certain kind of inlet created by glaciation is a fjord, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes.
Complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds, e.g. Puget Sound, Howe Sound, Karmsund (sund is Scandinavian for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals, e.g. Portland Canal, Lynn Canal, Hood Canal, and some are channels, e.g. Dean Channel, Douglas Channel, Amsterdam Channel.
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Bruun, Per; A.J. Mehta (1978). Stability of Tidal Inlets: Theory and Engineering. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co.. pp. 510. ISBN 978-0-444-41728-2.
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Inlet
Dansk (Danish)
n. - indløb, indgang, åbning, ventil, fjord, vig
Nederlands (Dutch)
inlaat, inham, inlegsel
Français (French)
n. - bras de mer, crique, bras de fleuve, (Tech) arrivée, admission (d'air, de fuel)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Einlaß(öffnung), Bucht
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - είσοδος, πρόσβαση, (γεωγρ.) αγκάλη, ορμίσκος
Italiano (Italian)
insenatura, piccola baia
Português (Portuguese)
n. - entrada (f), braço (m) de mar
Русский (Russian)
вставлять, входное отверстие, узкий морской залив
Español (Spanish)
n. - ensenada, cala
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sund, havsarm, ingång, inlopp, infällning (t.ex. av tyg)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
进口, 水湾, 入口
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 進口, 水灣, 入口
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 入り江, 入り口, 引き入れ口, はめ込んだ物, 入口
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مدخل, خليج صغير, رفرف
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מפרץ צר, לשון-ים, דבר מוכנס, כניסה, דבר תחוב
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