title: Consumption
text: # Consumption
  
  Consumption may refer to:
  
  * Resource consumption
  * Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically known as consumption
  * Consumer (food chain), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms
  * Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use also defined as the consuming of products
     * Consumption function, an economic formula
  * Consumption (sociology) of resources, associated with social class, identity, group membership, and age
  