Word of the Day:
injection
What It Means
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.
a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
Injection in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
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.
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