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Injection vs Infection - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between injection and infection

is that injection is injection while infection is (pathology) the act or process of infecting.

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) ----

    infection

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
  • An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
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    Derived terms

    * spurious infection