Impregnation

Quick meaning: Impregnation is a noun meaning The act of making pregnant; fertilization.

Meaning

The act of making pregnant; fertilization.

More Meanings

1. The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
2. That with which anything is impregnated.
3. (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.

Example Sentences

Earths and alkalies are simply metallic oxides; whilst a farther impregnation of these substances with oxygen produces an acid.

Oil-shales are often the last relics of a former impregnation with petroleum; they are associated with phenomena—such as the intrusive asphaltites or manjacks—common to petroliferous regions, but in many cases the parent oilfields, the sources of the former impregnation, are things of the past.

Word Forms

• impregnations

Synonyms for impregnation

Depending on context, synonyms include saturation, permeation, fecundation, fertilization, suffusion, pervasion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fertilization, fecundation, fertilisation, saturation, permeation, suffusion.

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