injection
/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
The act of injecting, or something that is injected; Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle
- plural
- injections
Meanings
- 1
The act of injecting, or something that is injected
The nurse gave the patient an injection.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
I prefer taking medicine rather than getting an injection.
Tatoeba · sacredceltic · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle
- 3
A specimen prepared by injectionrare
- 4
A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproductrare
- 5
The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumpsrare
- 6
The supply of additional funding to a person or a businessrare
- 7
A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of Xrare
- 8
The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertionrare
- 9
The act of putting a spacecraft into a particular orbit, especially for changing a stable orbit into a transfer orbit, e.g. trans-lunar injectionrare
- 10
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 domainrare