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Meaning of Ingestion | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən

Definitions

  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. The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
  3. Any intake of a substance into an organism.
  4. Intake of data into a computer system.

Equivalents

العربية الإبتلاع
Български поглъ́щане
Català ingestió
Español ingestión
Suomi ravinnonotto
Français ingestion
हिन्दी ग्रसन
Bahasa Indonesia penyerapan
Italiano ingestione
Português ingestão

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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