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English

Noun

punctures

1. plural of puncture

Verb

punctures

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of puncture

Anagrams

• supercunt

English

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): /?n.?d??k.??n/
• Hyphenation: in?jec?tion
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

injection (countable and uncountable, plural injections)

1. The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
2. A specimen prepared by injection.
3. (category theory) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
4. (construction) The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
5. (figuratively) The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.

   The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.

6. (mathematics) A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
7. (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

8. (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.

9. (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.
10. (specifically, medicine) Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
11. (steam engines) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
12. (steam engines) The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• inject

Translations

See also

References

• injection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iniecti?, iniecti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.??k.sj??/

Noun

injection f (plural injections)

1. injection

Related terms

• injecter

Further reading

• “injection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).