injection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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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.
Base: inject
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: injections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For some indications in PET imaging, it is necessary for radiopharmaceutical injections to be administered contralaterally or pedally to the disease process
gloss: A specimen prepared by injection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.
gloss: A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Congestion (of a body part, with blood or other fluid), such as hyperemia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: conjunctival injection
gloss: Fuel injection: the pressurized introduction of fuel into a cylinder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: direct injection
tuned port injection
gloss: The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: inject
hypodermic
immunization
jab
Derived words: agroinjection
autoinjection
beef injection
booster injection
coinjection
crossinjection
electroinjection
femtoinjection
Heathrow injection
hot-beef injection
hot beef injection
injectional
injection lipolysis
injection molding
injection moulding
injective
injectively
interinjection
lethal injection
lipoinjection
meat injection
microinjection
nanoinjection
postinjection
preinjection
reinjection
superinjection
supervised injection site
trans-Earth injection
transjection
trans-lunar injection
trans-Mars injection
water for injection
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