Definitions of inoculation

1. The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.

2. The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

3. Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.

4. The act or practice of inoculating, as a bud or infectious matter.

5. The act or practice of communicating disease by inserting contagious matter into the punctured skin; the act of inserting the eye of a bud into another stock.