digestion (noun)

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• digestion — ► NOUN 1) the process of digesting. 2) a person s capacity to digest food …   English terms dictionary

• digestion — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ good ▪ poor VERB + DIGESTION ▪ have ▪ She has very poor digestion. ▪ aid …   Collocations dictionary

• digestion — late 14c., from O.Fr. digestion (13c.), from L. digestionem (nom. digestio), noun of action from pp. stem of digerere (see DIGEST (Cf. digest) (n.)) …   Etymology dictionary

• digestion — noun 1 (U) the process of digesting food 2 (C) your ability to digest food easily: a good/poor etc digestion: I ve always had a poor digestion …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• digestion — noun Date: 14th century the action, process, or power of digesting: as a. the process of making food absorbable by dissolving it and breaking it down into simpler chemical compounds that occurs in the living body chiefly through the action of… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• digestion — noun /daɪˈdʒɛstʃən,dɨˈdʒɛstʃən/ a) The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body. b) The result of this process. See Also: dige …   Wiktionary

• digestion — noun the process of digesting. ↘a person s capacity to digest food …   English new terms dictionary

• digestion coefficient — noun also digestibility coefficient : the proportion of a nutrient taken into the digestive tract that is actually digested compare biological value …   Useful english dictionary

• digestion — UK [daɪˈdʒestʃ(ə)n] / US noun 1) [uncountable] the process of changing food into the substances that your body needs Alcohol slows down the digestion of food. 2) [countable/uncountable] your ability to digest food …   English dictionary

• digestion — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. digesting, eupepsia, assimilation, separation, disintegration, conversion, ingestion, absorption, metabolism, chymification. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The process of absorbing and incorporating, especially mentally:… …   English dictionary for students

• digestion — di|ges|tion [ daı dʒestʃən ] noun 1. ) the process of changing food into the substances that your body needs 2. ) your ability to digest food …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English