ingestion
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ingestion
- /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/
Rhymes with -ɛstʃən
Where it comes from
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”).
noun ingestions
- 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.
- The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
- Any intake of a substance into an organism. The common modes of ingestion in forensic settings are oral ingestion, injection, and smoking
- Intake of data into a computer system. 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.
Opposite: egestion
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: consumption, intake, uptake, absorption, eating, feeding, diet, drinking, stomach, consuming, oral, gathering, consommation, collect, gather, collection
noun
Opposite: egestion
Translations
Talk about this word "ingestion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ingestion. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. ingestion. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ingestion "ingestion." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ingestion.Cite this
@misc{ingestion_2026,
title = {ingestion},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ingestion},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
