impregnation 音标拼音: [ɪmpr'ɛgn'eʃən]
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impregnation n 1 :
material with which something is impregnated ; "
the impregnation ,
whatever it was ,
had turned the rock blue "
2 :
the process of totally saturating something with a substance ;
"
the impregnation of wood with preservative "; "
the saturation of cotton with ether " [
synonym : {
impregnation }, {
saturation }]
3 :
creation by the physical union of male and female gametes ;
of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant [
synonym : {
fertilization }, {
fertilisation }, {
fecundation },
{
impregnation }]
Impregnation \
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n . [
Cf .
F .
impr ['
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gnation ,
LL .
impraegnatio .]
1 .
The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated ;
fecundation .
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2 . (
Biol .)
The fusion of a female germ cell (
ovum )
with a male germ cell (
in animals ,
a spermatozo ["
o ]
n )
to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual ;
fertilization ;
fecundation .
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Note :
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 .
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3 .
That with which anything is impregnated . --
Derham .
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4 .
Intimate mixture ;
infusion ;
saturation .
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5 . (
Mining )
An ore deposit ,
with indefinite boundaries ,
consisting of rock impregnated with ore . --
Raymond .
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61 Moby Thesaurus words for "
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 ,
zygosis
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