ingests

Verb

ingest (third-person singular simple present ingests, present participle ingesting, simple past and past participle ingested)

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

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