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say it: in-JEK-tur
injector is a noun meaning "a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.)". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈdʒɛktɚ/ — in-JEK-tur. It carries one recorded sense.
a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for injector come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.