NOUN | substance | impregnation | material with which something is impregnated |
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process | impregnation, saturation | the process of totally saturating something with a substance | |
event | impregnation, fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation | creation by the physical union of male and female gametes |
Sounds | ihmpreh'gney'shahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | material with which something is impregnated. | |
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Example | "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue" | |
Broader | material, stuff | The tangible / tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
Spanish | impregnación |
Meaning | The process of totally saturating something with a substance. | |
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Example | "the impregnation of wood with preservative" | |
Synonym | saturation | |
Part of | plastination | A process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues |
Broader | permeation, pervasion, suffusion | The process of permeating / permeating / permeating or infusing something with a substance |
Verbs | impregnate | infuse or fill completely |
Meaning | 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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Synonyms | fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation | |
Narrower | cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation | fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species |
pollination, pollenation | transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant | |
self-fertilization, self-fertilisation | fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual | |
superfecundation | fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | |
superfetation | fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun | |
Broader | creation, conception | The event that occurred at the beginning of something |
Spanish | fecundación, fertilización | |
Catalan | fecundació | |
Verbs | impregnate | make pregnant |
impregnate | fertilize and cause to grow |
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