| Definition of 'impregnation' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) impregnation
material with which something is impregnated
"the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
2. (noun) impregnation, saturation
the process of totally saturating something with a substance
"the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"
3. (noun) fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation
creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
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| Definition of 'impregnation' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) impregnation
the act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation
2. (noun) impregnation
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
3. (noun) impregnation
that with which anything is impregnated
4. (noun) impregnation
intimate mixture; influsion; saturation
5. (noun) impregnation
an ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore
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