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
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
