Infusion vs Injection - What's the difference?
infusion | injection |
A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
The act of installing a quality into a person.
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(obsolete) The act of dipping into a fluid.
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.
(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 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.
As nouns the difference between infusion and injection
is that infusion is a product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities while injection is the act of injecting, or something that is injected.infusion
English
Noun
(en noun)- An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion .
- [...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
injection
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(wikipedia injection)Noun
(en noun)- The troubled business received a much-needed cash injection .
- a SQL injection exploit allowing a malicious user to modify a database query
