noun
- the act of injecting.
- something that is injected.
- a liquid injected into the body, especially for medicinal purposes, as a hypodermic or an enema.
- state of being hyperemic or bloodshot.
- Mathematics. a one-to-one function.
- Also called insertion. Aerospace. the process of putting a spacecraft into orbit or some other desired trajectory.
noun
- fluid injected into the body, esp for medicinal purposes
- something injected
- the act of injecting
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- the act or process of introducing fluid under pressure, such as fuel into the combustion chamber of an engine
- (as modifier)injection moulding
- maths a function or mapping for which f(x) = f(y) only if x = ySee also surjection, bijection
“forcing a fluid into a body” (with a syringe, etc.), early 15c., from Middle French iniection (14c.) or directly from Latin iniectionem (nominative iniectio), noun of action from past participle stem of inicere (see inject).
n.
- The act of injecting a substance into a tissue, vessel, canal, or organ.
- Something that is injected, especially a dose of liquid medicine injected into the body.
- Congestion or hyperemia.
- A substance that is introduced into a organism, especially by means of a hypodermic syringe, as a liquid into the veins or muscles of the body.
- A function that maps each member of one set (the domain) to exactly one member of another set (the range). Compare bijection surjection.