noun

injection

ihn-JEHK-shuhn

noun

The act of putting a liquid, especially medicine, into the body with a needle, or the dose given that way.

"The doctor gave her a flu injection."

"He was terrified of injections as a child."

A sudden addition of money or resources into something.

"The struggling airline received a much-needed cash injection from investors."

In computing, the malicious insertion of code into a program or system.

"The website was vulnerable to a SQL injection attack."

How to Use Injection

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA shot of medicine, a sudden boost of funding, or (in tech) malicious code slipped into a system.

Common pairings

flu injection cash injection SQL injection fuel injection

injections plural

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From Latin iniectio, "a throwing in," from inicere, "to throw into."

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