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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure;

2. any solution that is injected (as into the skin);
[syn: injection, injectant]

3. the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe;
- Example: "the nurse gave him a flu shot"
[syn: injection, shot]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Injection \In*jec"tion\, n. [L. injectio : cf. F. injection.] 1. The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible insertion of a liquid or gas, by means of a syringe, pump, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is injected; especially, a liquid inserted thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema. --Mayne. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. fuel injection, a method of inserting fuel into internal-combustion engines by directly forcing the liquid fuel into the combustion chamber at an appropriate point in the piston cycle; in contrast to carburetion, in which an air-fuel mixture is drawn in by the downward stroke of the piston. [1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

injection n 1: the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure 2: any solution that is injected (as into the skin) [syn: injection, injectant] 3: the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe; "the nurse gave him a flu shot" [syn: injection, shot]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

injection 1. A function, f : A -> B, is injective or one-one, or is an injection, if and only if for all a, b in A, f(a) = f(b) => a = b. I.e. no two different inputs give the same output (contrast many-to-one). This is sometimes called an embedding. Only injective functions have left inverses f' where f'(f(x)) = x, since if f were not an injection, there would be elements of B for which the value of f' was not unique. If an injective function is also a surjection then is it a bijection. 2. An injection function is one which takes objects of type T and returns objects of type C(T) where C is some type constructor. An example is f x = (x, 0). The opposite of an injection function is a projection function which extracts a component of a constructed object, e.g. fst (x,y) = x. We say that f injects its argument into the data type and fst projects it out. (1995-03-14)