noun

• The act or an instance of importing.
• The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.
• That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
• (linguistics) The use of a term which consists of formally foreign elements.
• (logic) The logical law (P→(Q→R))⇒((P∧Q)→R).