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injector

injector

1 6.5
A part of a program that gives other parts the things they need to work
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈdʒɛktər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : inyector de dependencias
  • In software development, an injector can automate the process of providing dependencies to various program components.
  • the main injector

Examples

  • In addition, Fastrac's injection system has only three parts: a face plate with a drilled hole pattern, a brazed injector body, and a gimbal block, Davis said.

    Academic text (1998)

  • PHOTOS (COLOR): The old system consisted of chlorinators, gas cylinders, water supply piping, injectors, a scale, a chlorine detector, as well as a fresh air intake and exhaust.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Injector assembly one has been deactivated.

    Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

  • During and after Run II, fixed targets at the main injector would also sustain a rich program of neutrino experiments.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Without the injector, HERA can't run.

    Academic text (2003)

  • As its injector, it will use a third, or about 1 km, of SLAC's linac.

    Academic text (2006)

  • So the main challenges, besides getting the lab's backing, are coming up with funds for a replacement injector plus 150 or so people to run the machine.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The Fermilab main injector, the 3-km-circumference ring buried in the foreground, began operating in 2001.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Another purpose of the main injector was to let the collider run simultaneously with fixed-target neutrino and kaon-beam experiments.

    Academic text (2003)

  • About two years ago, DESY management decided to convert HERA's injector, PETRA, into a third-generation synchrotron light source.

    Academic text (2003)

Compounds

steam injector
  • Specialized
6.5

A device that uses steam to push water into a boiler

Surface Forms

injector singular
injectors plural

Morphology

injector = inject (transparent) = inject + or

The computing sense extends the agentive meaning ('one that injects') to components that provide dependencies, a domain-specific but predictable extension.

Etymology

Injector comes from the parts in- 'into' and -ject 'to throw'. In computing, an injector 'puts' the parts or services 'into' a program so the program has what it needs to run, like a helper handing tools to a worker.