Injectable vs Injection - What's the difference?
injectable | injection |
Capable of being (or designed to be) injected
(pharmacy) A drug which is designed to be injected
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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 injectable and injection
is that injectable is a drug which is designed to be injected while injection is the act of injecting, or something that is injected.As an adjective injectable
is capable of being (or designed to be) injected.injectable
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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