| 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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