ingestion

See also: ingestión

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ingestionem, accusative of ingestio (“a pouring in”), action noun of the perfect passive participle of ingerere (“pour in”), from in- (“in, into”) +‎ gero (“to carry, to bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstʃən

Noun

ingestion (countable and uncountable, plural ingestions)

1. The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
2. (by extension) The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
3. Any intake of a substance into an organism.
   • 2022, Suzanne Bell, Forensic Chemistry, page 339:

     The common modes of ingestion in forensic settings are oral ingestion, injection, and smoking

4. (computing) Intake of data into a computer system.
   • 2020, Jean-Georges Perrin, Rob Thomas, Spark in Action, Second edition, Shelter Island: Manning, →ISBN:

     Ingestion is the first step of your big data pipeline. You will have to onboard the data in your instance of Spark, whether it is in local mode or cluster mode.

Antonyms

• egestion

Derived terms

• avian ingestion
• bird ingestion
• coingestion
• ingestional
• postingestion
• preingestion
• reingestion

Translations

the action of ingesting

• Bulgarian: поемане (bg) n (poemane), поглъщане (bg) n (poglǎštane)
• Catalan: ingestió f
• French: ingestion (fr) f
• German: Ingestion
• Italian: ingestione (it) f
• Polish: spożywanie (pl) n, spożycie (pl) n
• Portuguese: ingestão (pt) f
• Spanish: ingestión (es) f

References

• “ingestion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “ingestion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Ingenitos

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ingestionem, accusative of ingestio (“a pouring in”), noun of action from the perfect passive participle of ingerere (“pour in”), from in- (“in, into”) +‎ gero (“to carry, to bear”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ingestion f (plural ingestions)

1. ingestion
   • 2006, Raymond Gilles, Michel Anctil, Physiologie animale‎^[1], page 238:

     Les alcaloses métaboliques sont rares, essentiellement en rapport avec l'ingestion accidentelle d'alcalis.

     Metabolic alkaloses are rare, essentially in keeping with the accidental ingestion of alkalis.

Related terms

• ingérer

Further reading

• “ingestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• teignions

Interlingua

Noun

ingestion (uncountable)

1. ingestion