insertion

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 6.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of inserting, or something inserted.

   The surgeon performed the insertion of a pacemaker.

2. noun The distal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will be moved by the muscle.
3. noun The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.
4. noun The process of going from subcritical to prompt critical.

Similar words

intromission introduction insert placement entry add incorporate introduce affixing participation

Often followed by

of point in into and is loss site or

Word family

insert inserted inserting insertional insertions inserts