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Word entry · 9 letters

ingestion

Best crossword clue

"Food intake"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted egiinnostStarts with IEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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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