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injection.

The act of injecting, or something that is injected.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
  1. The act of injecting, or something that is injected.

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  2. A specimen prepared by injection.

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  3. A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.

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  4. The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.

    countable · uncountable
  5. The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
    The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.
  6. A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.

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  7. The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.

    countable · uncountable
    a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
  8. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  9. 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.

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  10. Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.

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  11. Congestion (of a body part, with blood or other fluid), such as hyperemia.

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    conjunctival injection
  12. Fuel injection: the pressurized introduction of fuel into a cylinder.

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    direct injection
    tuned port injection
  13. The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

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  14. The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

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Where this word comes from

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.

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