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Infective vs Injective - What's the difference?

infective | injective |

As adjectives the difference between infective and injective

is that infective is able to cause infection; infectious while injective is (mathematics) of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain); inverse-deterministic.

As a noun infective

is (epidemiology) a person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others.

infective

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to cause infection; infectious

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (epidemiology) A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, Belinda Barnes & Glenn Fulford, Mathematical Modeling with Case Studies citation
    • , passage=It is evident that the greater the number of susceptibles, then the greater the increase in the number of infectives .}}

    Coordinate terms

    * immune * susceptible

    injective

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain); inverse-deterministic.

    • Synonyms

    * one-to-one

    Derived terms

    * injective cogenerator * injective dimension * injective function * injective hull * injective map * injective module * injective object * injective patch * injective sheaf

    Related terms

    * injectively