Insertion may refer to: Insertion (anatomy), the point of a tendon or ligament onto the skeleton or other part of the body Insertion aria, aria inserted into an opera for which it was not originally composed Insertion (genetics), the addition of DNA into a genetic sequence Insertion, several meanings in medicine, see ICD-10 Procedure Coding System Insertion loss, in electronics Insertion reaction, a chemical reaction in which one chemical entity interposes itself into an existing bond of a second chemical entity (e.g.: A + B–C → B–A–C) Insertion sort, a simple computer algorithm for sorting arrays Local insertion, in broadcasting Insertion of a character in a string, one of the single-character edits used to define the Levenshtein distance between two words
See also Insert (disambiguation)