con·sump·tion /kənˈsʌm(p)ʃən/
消費,消費量,憔悴
Con·sump·tion n.
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. --Burke.
2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. Med. A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
Consumption of the bowels Med., inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.
Syn: -- Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.
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consumption
n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
(as by eating) [syn: ingestion, intake, uptake]
2: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
[syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, wasting
disease, white plague]
3: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy
needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has
increased steadily" [syn: economic consumption, usance,
use, use of goods and services]
4: the act of consuming something [syn: using up, expenditure]