Definitions
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“The common modes of ingestion in forensic settings are oral ingestion, injection, and smoking”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Food intake”9 letters
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