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/ˌɪmˈpɹɛɡˈneɪʃən/
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NOUN
- 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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material with which something is impregnated
the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue -
the process of totally saturating something with a substance
the saturation of cotton with ether
the impregnation of wood with preservative
How To Use impregnation In A Sentence
- I mean, it's the time of the month for me that is perfect for impregnation and we haven't used protection,’ she pointed out.
- Don't be surprised if in your lifetime the majority of your peers will consider you loony (if not irresponsible) for leaving impregnation up to pure chance-that quaint practice of sexual reproduction.
- After impregnation the fertilized oosphere immediately surrounds itself with a cell-wall and becomes the oospore which by a process of growth forms the embryo of the new plant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
- In this paper, the technology of carbon fiber reinforced PEEK prepreg produced by melt impregnation is investigated.
- This was the discovery of the 'black reaction' (reazione nera), based on nervous tissue hardening in potassium bichromate and impregnation with silver nitrate. Life and Discoveries of Camillo Golgi
- Structure and performance of aluminum impregnation to steel _ container are studied.
- Once again, Danae's impregnation by gold is presented as a desirable rather than lamentable event in this comic context.
- impregnation;" to the little child it may be presented as "an awakening" of the sleeping seeds, so that they begin to grow, to develop, to expand and push out, until we have the full-grown seeds seen in the delicious and juicy roasting ear. The Mother and Her Child
- Are we now further narrowing the definition of an affirmative action Chicken-Hawk to demand impregnation of a woman between 1965 and1975? The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
- the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue