injector
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4.9
- noun
- /ɪnˈdʒɛktər/
- Specialized
:
inyector
- An engine was switching alongside; the injectors puffed jets of steam.
- fuel injector
- auto-injector
- injector pump
Examples
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For example, fuel injectors were found on only a few high-performance vehicles in 1970.
Academic text (2003) -
This is a nano injector used in gene therapy to deliver DNA to cells.
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I just need that starter and fuel injector I ordered.
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Inside this cage is the largest and most powerful plasma injector in the world.
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- Well, unless you know where we can get a new radiator, possibly a new fuel injector, I'd say we're dead in the water.
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Do you know how to disable the injector?
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A ride that needed a set of new tires and new fuel injectors.
Fiction book (2001) -
They will lend us their plasma injector and we can go home.
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The fuel injector they developed is called the Twin Annular pre swirl injector or taps.
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The doctor used a injector to administer the vaccine quickly and efficiently.
Synonyms
14
4.9
A medical machine that slowly gives medicine or fluid into the body
1
6.0
A small device that gives a set amount of medicine into the body for a person to use
A device that uses steam to push water into a boiler
A device that puts liquid into a part of the body, like the eye, drop by drop
A machine or person that puts items into other objects, for example letters into envelopes
A person or tool that fixes something firmly inside something else, for example putting a gem into a ring
Compounds
How Forceful
- Specialized
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4.9
- Specialized
99
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Injector comes from the parts in- 'into' and -ject 'to throw'. So an injector is a device that 'throws' or forces liquid or particles 'into' something, like a syringe pushing medicine into a body or a fuel injector sending fuel into an engine.