An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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A charge-transfer device that passes along stored charges positioned at predetermined locations; it is used as an image sensor in which the image points are accessed by reference to their horizontal and vertical coordinates.

→ charge; → injection; → device.

The injection of holes in a semiconductor which can be produced by application of a sharp conducting point in contact with an n-type semiconductor.

→ hole; → injection.

1) General: The act of injecting. Something that is injected.
2) Physics: The process of introducing electrons or holes into a semiconductor so that their total number exceeds the number present at thermal equilibrium. → hole injection.
3) Math.: A one-to-one → mapping. In other words, a mapping from a → set A onto a set B such that for every element in B there is at the most an element in A.

Verbal noun of → inject.