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Ingestion

//ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance. broadly, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Any intake of a substance into an organism. countable, uncountable

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

  5. 5
    Intake of data into a computer system. countable, uncountable

    "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."

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”).

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