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insertion

noun
/ɪnˈsɝʃən/US

Etymology

From insert + -ion.

  1. derived from *ser-✻ — “to bind, put together, to line up”
  2. derived from insertus
  3. suffixed as insertion — “insert + ion”

Definitions

  1. The act of inserting, or something inserted.

    • The surgeon performed the insertion of a pacemaker.
    • The insertion of new text changed the meaning of the document.
    • The book contained the insertion of several illustrations.

  2. The distal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will be moved by the muscle.

  3. The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The process of going from subcritical to prompt critical.

The neighborhood

Derived

deinsertion, disinsertion, do-insertion, indel, insertional, insertion order, insertion reaction, insertion sort, insertion time, leaf insertion, microinsertion, misinsertion, noninsertion, plane of insertion, postinsertion, postinsertional, preinsertion, preinsertional, reinsertion, Schensted insertion, self-insertion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at insertion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at insertion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at insertion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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