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impregnation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun impregnation has 3 senses
- impregnation(n = noun.substance) Array - material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue" is a kind of material, stuff
- impregnation(n = noun.process) saturation - the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether" is a kind of permeation, pervasion, suffusion
- impregnation(n = noun.event) fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization - creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant; Array is a kind of conception, creation
is a part of plastination
Derived form verb impregnate2
has particulars: pollenation, pollination, cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilization, self-fertilisation, self-fertilization, superfecundation, superfetation
Derived forms verb impregnate4, verb impregnate3
CIDE DICTIONARY
impregnation, n. [Cf. F. imprégnation, LL. impraegnatio.].
- The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation. [1913 Webster]
- The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoön) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation. [1913 Webster]" In the broadest biological sense, impregnation, or sexual generation, consists simply in the coalescence of two similar masses of protoplasmic matter, either derived from different parts of the same organism or from two distinct organisms. From the single mass, which results from the fusion, or coalescence, of these two masses, a new organism develops." [1913 Webster]
- That with which anything is impregnated. Derham. [1913 Webster]
- Intimate mixture; infusion; saturation. [1913 Webster]
- An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
impregnation
absorption and regurgitation, artificial insemination, brainwashing, brewing, catechization, conditioning, conjugation, cross-fertilization, cross-pollination, decoction, dictation, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking, enrichment, fecundation, fertilization, getting with child, heterogamy, imbruement, imbuement, implantation, impression, inculcation, indoctrination, infiltration, infixation, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, insemination, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, isogamy, leaching, lixiviation, maceration, marination, orthogamy, penetration, percolation, permeation, pervasion, pollination, pollinization, pulping, reindoctrination, saturation, seething, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, steeping, suffusion, zygosisROGET THESAURUS
impregnation
Mixture
N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.Combination
N combination, mixture, junction, union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization, alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid, resultant, impregnation, combined, impregnated with, ingrained, imbued inoculated.Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.
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