injection
The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
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. Equivalent to inject + -ion.
INJECTION at a glance
INJECTION has 9 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (I 1 + N 1 + J 8 + E 1 + C 3 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 23 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,125 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with injection
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- INFECTION14
- INSECTION11
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