injection
See also: înjection
English

An injection (6)
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
- IPA(key): /ɪn.ˈdʒɛk.ʃən/
- Hyphenation: in‧jec‧tion
- Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
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
- (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
- 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
Derived terms
- injection lipolysis
- injection moulding
- injective
- injectively
(construction) Terms derived from injection
- injection cock
- injection condenser
- injection pipe
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
See also
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iniectiō, iniectiōnem.
Related terms
Further reading
- “injection” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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