injection

injection

(insertion) The process of boosting a spacecraft into a particular orbit or trajectory. It is also the time of such action or the entry itself.

Collins Dictionary of Astronomy © Market House Books Ltd, 2006

What does it mean when you dream about an injection?

In traditional psychoanalysis, a dream about an injection is often viewed as a dream about sexual intercourse. Can also indicate an influence that is forced on us. If we had bad experiences with being inoculated as children, then an injection dream can represent any number of different anxieties and fears.

The Dream Encyclopedia, Second Edition © 2009 Visible Ink Press®. All rights reserved.

injection

[in′jek·shən]

(aerospace engineering)

The process of placing a spacecraft into a specific trajectory, such as an earth orbit or an encounter trajectory to Mars. Also known as insertion.

(electronics)

The method of applying a signal to an electronic circuit or device.

The process of introducing electrons or holes into a semiconductor so that their total number exceeds the number present at thermal equilibrium.

(geology)

Also known as intrusion; sedimentary injection.

A process by which sedimentary material is forced under abnormal pressure into a preexisting rock or deposit.

A structure formed by an injection process.

(mathematics)

A mapping ƒ from a set A into a set B which has the property that for any element b of B there is at most one element a of A for which ƒ(a) = b. Also known as injective mapping; one-to-one mapping; univalent function.

(mechanical engineering)

The introduction of fuel, fuel and air, fuel and oxidizer, water, or other substance into an engine induction system or combustion chamber.

(medicine)

Introduction of a fluid into the skin, vessels, muscle, subcutaneous tissue, or any cavity of the body.

The substance injected.

(mining engineering)

The introduction under pressure of a liquid or plastic material into cracks, cavities, or pores in a rock formation.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

injection

(mathematics)

A function, f : A -> B, is injective or one-one, or is an injection, if and only if

for all a,b in A, f(a) = f(b) => a = b.

I.e. no two different inputs give the same output (contrast many-to-one). This is sometimes called an embedding. Only injective functions have left inverses f' where f'(f(x)) = x, since if f were not an injection, there would be elements of B for which the value of f' was not unique. If an injective function is also a surjection then is it a bijection.

injection

(reduction)

An injection function is one which takes objects of type T and returns objects of type C(T) where C is some type constructor. An example is

f x = (x, 0).

The opposite of an injection function is a projection function which extracts a component of a constructed object, e.g.

fst (x,y) = x.

We say that f injects its argument into the data type and fst projects it out.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Injection

 

the introduction of small quantities of medicine in solution or emulsion into subcutaneous tissue, intramuscularly, or intravenously with syringe and needle. With injection a more rapid effect is achieved than with ingestion, as well as precise dosage and reliability of effect. With injection, medication may be introduced regardless of the condition of the patient, such as unconsciousness and inability to swallow. For localized effect medicinal solutions are injected into the pleural cavity or joints; intradermal injections are used for analgesia and for diagnostic purposes, for example, the Mantoux reaction for diagnosing tuberculosis. Intracardiac injection is resorted to when there is a sudden heart stoppage (injury from electric shock, gas poisoning, and narcosis). Injection into the cerebrospinal canal is done for analgesia and treatment of certain diseases. The rules of asepsis must be observed without fail in injection.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.