ingest meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

ingest

verb

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/

Etymology From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”).

To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Broadly, Of a jet engine To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.

The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.

To bring or import into a system.

While this might seem like more than enough computing power for these purposes, the same machine is also used to ingest, archive and distribute TRMM data to the user community.2013, R. L. Grossman, C. Kamath, P. Kegelmeyer, Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, page 176:

Synonyms: consume, discuss, get outside, ingest, partake, put away, touch
Antonyms: defecate, regurgitate
Derived terms: coingest, ingestable, ingester, ingestible, ingestive, misingest, noningested, reingest, uningested
Hypernyms: admit, receive
Hyponyms: imbibe, drink, eat, break one's fast, dig into, lace into, slattern away, tuck into
Meronyms: digest, swallow

ingest

noun

Etymology From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”).

The process of importing data or other material into a system.

Film is a physical, photochemical medium that requires a significant transformation process for ingest into the electronic/digital domain of television.2007, Edmund A. Williams, National Association of Broadcasters Engineering Handbook:
Material received by the BSF for ingest into storage, and the items being picked and refilled, are all processed in an ancillary hall next to the high-density storage area.2013, Michael Heaney, Catriona Jeanne Cannon, Transforming the Bodleian, page 78:

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