injection
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)injections
- the forceful insertion of a substance under pressureType of insertion, introductionKinds epidural injection
- any solution that is injected (as into the skin)Synonyms: injectantType of solution
- the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe“the nurse gave him a flu shot”Synonyms: shotType of medical care, medical aidKinds intradermal injection, intramuscular injection, intravenous injection, subcutaneous injection
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Noun act of injecting, or something injected
- Spanish
- inyección
- French
- injection
- German
- Injektion
- Italian
- iniezione
- Portuguese
- injeção
- Turkish
- enjeksiyon
- Russian
- инъе́кция inʺjékcija
- Arabic
- حُقْنَة ḥuqna
- Japanese
- 注射 chūsha
- Dutch
- inspuiting
19 more languages
- Polish
- zastrzyk
- Swedish
- injektion
- Greek
- ένεση énesi
- Korean
- 주사 jusa
- Indonesian
- suntikan
- Hungarian
- injekció
- Portuguese (PT)
- injeção
- Catalan
- injecció
- Czech
- injekce
- Danish
- injektion
- Esperanto
- injekto
- Finnish
- ruiske
- Georgian
- ინექცია inekcia
- Hebrew
- זְרִיקָה z'riká
- Icelandic
- innspýting
- Norwegian
- injeksjon
- Romanian
- injecție
- Serbo-Croatian
- injekcija
- Swahili
- sindano
Noun set theory
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.
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. Robert Gray Mayne
3. Anatomy (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. — 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<mathematics> 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.<reduction> 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)