digestion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   learning and coming to understand ideas and information

   Your appetite for facts was better than your digestion.

2. 2
   noun

   the process of decomposing organic matter by bacteria or by chemical action or heat

   Most organisms use digestion to get the sustenance they need.

3. 3
   noun

   The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.

   In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […].

4. 4
   noun

   the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body

From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).

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