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Meaning of 'impregnation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Impregnation [ n.]
- The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.
- The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.
- That with which anything is impregnated.
- Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.
- An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.

Meaning of 'impregnation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . impregnation [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
Example in sentence:
  • the impregnation of wood with preservative;
  • the saturation of cotton with ether
Meaning (2):
- material with which something is impregnated
Example in sentence:
  • the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue

Nearby Words:

imp imp-pole impacable impackment impact impacted impacting impaction impaint impair

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