Insertion may refer to:Insertion (anatomy), the point of a tendon or ligament onto the skeleton or other part of the body Insertion (genetics), the addition of DNA into a genetic sequence Insertion, several meanings in medicine, see ICD-10-PCS 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 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