Import

Data brought into an environment or application which has been exported from another environment or application.

Water piped or channeled into an area.

In hydrologic terms, water piped or channeled into an area

A Java keyword used at the beginning of a source file that can specify classes or entire packages to be referred to later without including their package names in the reference.

To gain access to symbols that are exported from another module. See "use" in perlfunc.