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Injected energy into a 3D representation (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

added

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'injected' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'energy into a 3d representation' is the wordplay.
'energy' becomes 'e' (physics symbol as in E=mcd).
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'3d' becomes 'd'.
'representation' becomes 'dd' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'d'+'dd'='addd'
'e' put inside 'addd' is 'ADDED'.

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(Other definitions for added that I've seen before include "Extra" , "Contributed" , "Totted" , "Appended; totalled" , "Said" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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