impregnation

im·preg·nate  (m-prgnt)

tr.v. im·preg·nat·ed, im·preg·nat·ing, im·preg·nates

1. To make pregnant; inseminate.

2. To fertilize (an ovum, for example).

3. To fill throughout; saturate: a cotton wad that was impregnated with ether.

4. To permeate or imbue: impregnate a speech with optimism. See Synonyms at charge.

adj. also (-nt)

Saturated or filled.

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[Probably from Late Latin impraegntus, pregnant : Latin in-, in; see in-² + Latin praegntus, variant of praegns, pregnant; see pregnant¹.]

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impreg·nation n.

im·pregnator n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	impregnation - material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue" material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
	2.	impregnation - the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether" saturation permeation, pervasion, suffusion - the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance plastination - a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened; "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching"
	3.	impregnation - creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization conception, creation - the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure" pollenation, pollination - transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilization - fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species self-fertilisation, self-fertilization - 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; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time; "superfetation is normal in some animal species"

Translations

impregnation [ˌɪmpregˈneɪʃən] N (= permeation) → impregnación f (Bio) → fecundación f

impregnation

n

(= saturation) → Tränkung f

(fig) → Erfüllung f

(Biol: = fertilization) → Befruchtung f; (of humans also) → Schwängerung f