injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: injections
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French injection, from Latin iniectio. The mathematical sense is from French injection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique. Equivalent to inject + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: For some indications in PET imaging, it is necessary for radiopharmaceutical injections to be administered contralaterally or pedally to the disease process
ref: 2010, Paul Shreve, David W. Townsend, Clinical PET-CT in Radiology: Integrated Imaging in Oncology, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
glosses: A specimen prepared by injection.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
examples: text: The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.
glosses: The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: injective function
glosses: A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
examples: text: a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
qualifier: computer security
glosses: The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.
examples: text: It had been determined that one of the whip turnstile antennas had broken off from Explorer 1 shortly after injection into orbit, so these were eliminated.
ref: 2015, Henry L. Richter, America's Leap Into Space:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: The act of putting a spacecraft into a particular orbit, especially for changing a stable orbit into a transfer orbit, e.g. trans-lunar injection.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a f: X → Y such that f(a) = f(b) implies a = b for any a, b in the domain.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
examples: text: conjunctival injection
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Congestion (of a body part, with blood or other fluid), such as hyperemia.
examples: text: direct injection
text: tuned port injection
qualifier: internal combustion engines
glosses: Fuel injection: the pressurized introduction of fuel into a cylinder.
qualifier: steam engines
glosses: The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
qualifier: steam engines
glosses: The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
Hyponyms: word: direct injection
word: picoinjection
word: sperm injection
word: water injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: broker injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: code injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: constructor injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: dependency injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: email injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: fault injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: network injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: packet injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: prompt injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: SQL injection
sense: (computer security) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
word: URL injection
sense: (construction)
word: gravel injection
sense: (construction)
word: grout injection
Derived terms: word: agroinjection
word: autoinjection
word: beef injection
word: booster injection
word: coinjection
word: crossinjection
word: electroinjection
word: femtoinjection
word: Heathrow injection
word: hot-beef injection
word: hot beef injection
word: injectional
word: injection lipolysis
word: injection molding
word: injection moulding
word: injective
word: injectively
word: interinjection
word: lethal injection
word: lipoinjection
word: meat injection
word: microinjection
word: nanoinjection
word: postinjection
word: preinjection
word: reinjection
word: superinjection
word: supervised injection site
word: trans-Earth injection
word: transjection
word: trans-lunar injection
word: trans-Mars injection
word: water for injection
sense: (construction) Terms derived from injection
word: injection cock
sense: (construction) Terms derived from injection
word: injection condenser
sense: (construction) Terms derived from injection
word: injection pipe
Related terms: word: inject
sense: A specimen prepared by injection.
word: bijection
word: hypodermic
word: immunization
word: jab
sense: A specimen prepared by injection.
word: surjection