injection
See also: înjection
English
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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.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
- The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.
- (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.
- a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
- (space science) 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.
- 2015, Henry L. Richter, America's Leap Into Space
- 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.
- 2015, Henry L. Richter, America's Leap Into Space
- (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.
Hyponyms
(computing) Insertion of program code into an application, URL, etc.
(construction)
Derived terms
(construction) Terms derived from injection
Related terms
Translations
act of injecting, or something injected
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medicine: something injected
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set theory: one-to-one mapping
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computing: insertion of code
See also
References
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iniectiō, iniectiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
injection f (plural injections)
Related terms
Further reading
- “injection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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