injection
/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/ noun B2- The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
- A specimen prepared by injection.
- A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
- The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
- The supply of additional funding to a person or a business. · The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection.
- A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
- 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
- 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.
Plural injections
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