#intake
- Administration — The act of administering and its result; the management, direction, organization, and supervision of the activities of a legal entity or assets. In medicine, it represents the act of introducing a medicinal substance into the organism, and in computing, the set of maintenance and system configuration operations.
- Intake — The initial phase of the operating cycle of an internal combustion engine or pump, during which the working fluid (air, fuel mixture, or steam) is sucked or introduced into the cylinder; the pipe, port, or mechanism through which this introduction is achieved. The process is controlled by special valves to optimize volumetric efficiency and complete combustion.
- Air filter — A technical device or industrial installation designed to retain impurities, dust, pollen, or other suspended particles in the air, ensuring the purification of the gas stream before it enters a room or an internal combustion engine. In ecology, the term also applies to biological systems for natural atmospheric filtration.
- Supply — The act of feeding or supplying and its result; the structural process of providing food, fuel, energy, or raw materials needed for an organism or technical system to function. From a grammatical point of view, it also represents the plural form (masculine/feminine) of the adjective alimentar.
- Nutrition — The act or effect of feeding; the totality of physiological processes through which living organisms introduce, digest, and assimilate the nutrients necessary to sustain life, growth, and the proper functioning of biological systems; diet. Broadly or commercially, it designates the economic sector concerned with the production and distribution of edible goods.
- Water intake — A technical term designating a specialized engineering structure intended for capturing, intake, or managed diversion of a water flow from a natural course, canal, or basin, for supplying irrigation systems, hydroelectric plants, or drinking water networks; also, the term is sometimes used in topography and transport to indicate the width of the land strip definitively occupied by a railway or a public road.
- Anamnesis — A fundamental clinical method consisting of the totality of data obtained by a physician or psychologist through a structured dialogue with the patient or their relatives, regarding the history of the disease onset, family medical history, and living or working conditions. It represents the essential first stage of the clinical examination, aimed at guiding the diagnosis toward a specific pathology and establishing a relationship of trust between the specialist and the patient.
- Contribution — A material, financial, intellectual, or moral contribution brought by a person to a common action, a work, or the development of an activity. In commercial law, it denotes the assets or sums of money that partners pool together when establishing a business company; in medicine and nutrition, it designates the amount of nutrients, calories, or fluids introduced into the body through diet.