injection
(noun) the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure
injection, shot
(noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe; “the nurse gave him a flu shot”
injection, injectant
(noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
injection (countable and uncountable, plural injections)
The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
A specimen prepared by injection.
(category theory) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
(construction) The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
(figuratively) The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.
(mathematics) A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
(programming) The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.
(space) 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.
(set theory) 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.
(specifically, medicine) Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
(steam engines) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
(steam engines) The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
• direct injection
• sperm injection
• water injection
((computing) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.):
• broker injection
• code injection
• constructor injection
• dependency injection
• email injection
• fault injection
• network injection
• packet injection
• SQL injection
((construction)):
• gravel injection
• grout injection
Source: Wiktionary
In*jec"tion, n. Etym: [L. injectio : cf.F. injection.]
1. The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aëriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.
2. That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema. Mayne.
3. (Anat.) (a) The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance. (b) A specimen prepared by injection.
4. (Steam Eng.) (a) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum. (b) The cold water thrown into a condenser. Injection cock, or Injection valve (Steam Eng.), the cock or valve through which cold water is admitted into a condenser.
– Injection condenser. See under Condenser.
– Injection pipe, the pipe through which cold water is through into the condenser of a steam engine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 January 2025
(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
