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Injection vs Filling - What's the difference?

injection | filling |

As nouns the difference between injection and filling

is that injection is injection while filling is anything that is used to fill something.

As an adjective filling is

of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

As a verb filling is

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injection

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
  • (specifically, medicine) Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
  • (set theory) A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a f'': ''X'' → ''Y such that f(a) = f(b) implies a = b for any a, b in the domain.
  • (mathematics) A relation on sets (X,Y)'' that associates each element of ''Y'' with at most one element of ''X .
  • (figuratively) The addition of money to someone, or to a business.
  • The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection .
  • (programming) 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
  • A specimen prepared by injection.
  • (steam engines) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
  • (steam engines) The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
  • (category theory) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
  • (Contruction) The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
  • Derived terms

    * injection cock * injection condenser * injection pipe * injective * injectively *gravel injection *grout injection * constructor injection * dependency injection

    See also

    * bijection (2) * hypodermic * immunization * jab * surjection (2) ----

    filling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach
  • a filling meal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is used to fill something.
  • The contents of a pie, etc.
  • (dentistry) A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth.
  • The woof in woven fabrics.
  • Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • See also

    * filing