injection

B2 Topic:People & Society

US /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/ See IPA manual

Freq #7427

Meanings

1

noun
The act of putting a drug or liquid into the body with a needle, or the dose given this way.

The doctor gave him an injection to ease the pain.
2

noun
The addition of money or resources to support a person or business.

The struggling company received a much-needed cash injection.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the act of putting a drug... shot

Word family

Forms injections

Derived forms agroinjectionautoinjectioncoinjectioncrossinjectionelectroinjectionfemtoinjectioninjectionalinjectiveinjectivelyinterinjectionlipoinjectionmicroinjection

Related forms hypodermicimmunizationinject jab

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French injection, from Latin iniectio. The mathematical sense is from French injection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique. Equivalent to inject + -ion.

iniectio Latin injection French

View etymology graph ->

External links

# injection

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
**Frequency rank:** 7427

## Meanings
1. The act of putting a drug or liquid into the body with a needle, or the dose given this way.
2. The addition of money or resources to support a person or business.

## Examples
- The doctor gave him an injection to ease the pain.
- The struggling company received a much-needed cash injection.

## Derived Forms
- agroinjection
- autoinjection
- coinjection
- crossinjection
- electroinjection
- femtoinjection
- injectional
- injective
- injectively
- interinjection
- lipoinjection
- microinjection

## Related Forms
- hypodermic
- immunization
- inject
- jab

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: iniectio
- Root: injection

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French injection, from Latin iniectio. The mathematical sense is from French injection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique. Equivalent to inject + -ion.

## AI Etymology
Injection is borrowed from Middle French injection, from Latin iniectio. The mathematical sense is from French injection, introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in their treatise Éléments de mathématique. Equivalent to inject + -ion. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix.

## Topics
- People & Society

markdown

injection

Meanings

Thesaurus

Common collocations

Etymology

Topics

External links

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Send feedback