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Definition: INJECTOR |
INJECTORNoun1. A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor. 2. One who, or that which, injects. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A device that propels fuel or propellant into a combustion chamber under pressure other than atmospheric. See impinging-stream injector. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | For forcing fertilising liquids into the soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A mechanism which may be used in different forms for spraying fuel into the combustion chamber. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A device for injecting a spray of fuel into a combustion chamber. It may be of the fixed-or variable-orifice type. In American practice, the term may include the whole combustion chamber. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. Any apparatus used to force, under pressure, material into an opening in another material b. A device used to force-feed water into a boiler by the direct action of steam. See also:inspirator c. Mechanism used for spraying fuel oil into the combustion-type engine or to spray a fine oil mist into a stream of air or steam.See also:air mover. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: INJECTOR |
| English words defined with "INJECTOR": Giffard injector ♦ Inspirator. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "INJECTOR": ACCELERATOR OPERATOR, angiographer ♦ BUTTERMAKER, CONTINUOUS CHURN ♦ CIGARETTE-LIGHTER REPAIRER, compound-machine operator ♦ FOREST WORKER ♦ grout machine ♦ hydraulic cementing ♦ INJECTOR ASSEMBLER, insufflator ♦ LUMITE INJECTOR ♦ nonimpinging injector, non-impinging injector ♦ PLUGGING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ radiographer, angiogra ♦ SPECIAL PROCEDURES TECHNOLOGIST, ANGIOGRAM, squirt-machine operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "INJECTOR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (injector), Romanian (atomizer, burner, injector, inspirator). |
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Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | A jet injector is a device that uses gaseous pressure to propel drugs or vaccines through the outer layers of the skin, and into the underlying subcutaneous tissues. This is accomplished without the use of needles. Credit: CDC. |  | Use of a jet injector during the 1976 New Jersey Influenza A immunization project. 45 million adults in the United States received a vaccine containing the A/New Jersey/76 influenzavirus ("swine flu" virus). Credit: CDC. |
 | Use of jet injector for immunization. Credit: CDC. |  | King Tauf-Ahau Tupou III of Tonga demonstrates a jet injector for smallpox immunization. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Risks for infection include needle sharing, frequent daily injection, cocaine injection, and sharing needles with a long-term injector. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "INJECTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INJECTOR" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "INJECTOR": fuel injector ♦ Giffard injector ♦ Giffard's injector. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "INJECTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që bën injekcion. (various references) | |
Arabic | محقن, مدخل الحقنة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лице което инжекции, пароструйна помпа (ejector), инжектор (inspirator). (various references) | |
Chinese | 注射器 (syringe, Syringes). (various references) | |
Czech | vstřikovací tryska. (various references) | |
Danish | injektor, injektionspumpe, indsproejtningsdyse, forstøver (atomiser, atomizer, burner, croupaire, distributor, nebulizer, sprayer), brænder (burner). (various references) | |
Dutch | injector, verstuiver (air blow-out, atomiser, atomizer, burner, carburator, carburetor, carburettor, distributor, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, spray nozzle, sprayer, vaporiser, vaporizer, vaporizing burner), spuitstuk, draagbare injector, brander (blast lamp, blowpipe, burner, incandescent burner, injection wheel, vaporizing burner). (various references) | |
Finnish | injektori, polttoainesuutin (burner), poltin (burner). (various references) | |
French | injecteur. (various references) | |
German | Einspritzventil, Dampfstrahlpumpe. (various references) | |
Greek | καυστήρας (boiler), σύριγγα (syringe), εργαλείο έγχυσης, εγχυνών, εγχυτήρας (cannula, nozzle), ενετήρας, ακροφύσιο (air nozzle, blowpipe, connection, discharge spout, fipple, jet, mouthpiece, nozzle, pour spout, spout, spray nozzle, sprue bush). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזרק (squirt, syringe), מרסס (aerosol, atomizer, diffuser, pulverizer, spray, sprayer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fecskendõ (squirt, syringe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyuntik. (various references) | |
Italian | iniettore (jet, nozzle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 注射器 (syringe), 注射器 (syringe), インシュリンショック療法 (Indianapolis 500 mile race, indicator, indigo, indium, injection, Instamatic camera, instance, instant, instant coffee, instant ramen, insulation, insulin shock therapy, precooked Chinese noodles). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | インジェクター , ちゅうしゃき (syringe). (various references) | |
Korean | 인젝터. (various references) | |
Manx | tilgeyder stiagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | injectoray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | injector. (various references) | |
Romanian | injector (atomizer, burner, inspirator), pompã de injecţie. (various references) | |
Russian | форсунка (atomizer, burner, jet), инжектор (inspirator). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ubrizgač. (various references) | |
Spanish | inyector (nozzle). (various references) | |
Swedish | injektor (inspirator). (various references) | |
Turkish | püskürtücü (atomizer, repellent, repelling, spray, sprayer, spreader, sprinkler), enjektör (injection syringe, needle, syringe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інжектор (inspirator), форсунка (burner, jet, nozzle, pulverizer, spray burner, sprayer). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vòi phun. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INJECTOR": injectors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INJECTOR" (pronounced i'nje"kter) |
| 5 | -j e" k t er | objector, projector. |
| 4 | -e" k t er | collector, connecter, connector, defector, detector, director, erector, Hector, inspector, lector, nectar, protector, rector, sector, Specter, spectre, vector. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, compactor, conductor, constrictor, constructor, contractor, detractor, doctor, factor, inductor, instructor, malefactor, predictor, Proctor, prospector, reactor, refractor, semiconductor, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-j-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: cointer, jointer, noticer. | |
-2 letters: citron, coiner, cornet, cortin, cretin, erotic, inject, joiner, noetic, norite, notice, orcein, orient, recoin, rejoin, tonier. | |
-3 letters: cento, citer, conte, crone, inert, inter, intro, irone, jeton, joint, nicer, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, ontic, orcin, recon, recti, recto, tenor, toner, tonic, toric, trice, trine, trone. | |
-4 letters: cent, cero, cine, cion, cire. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-j-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: injectors, introject, rejection. | |
+2 letters: introjects, projecting, projection, rejections, surjection, trajection. | |
+3 letters: interjector, introjected, microinject, projections, reinjection, reobjecting, surjections, trajections. | |
+4 letters: conjecturing, interjection, interjectors, interjectory, introjecting, introjection, microinjects, projectional, reinjections. | |
+5 letters: antirejection, interjections, introjections, microinjected, projectionist. | |
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