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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
- In order to realize the dynamic monitoring of the speed ratio for cord fabric, the microcomputer monitoring system of speed ratio for cord fabric impregnation rubber process is developed.
- It is adaptable to vacuum plating. Gaseous drying of kerosene vacuum impregnation, vacuum drying. Dehydration, vacuum metallurgy and so on.
- Nevertheless, the vast majority of servants seem to have escaped impregnation - illegitimacy rates were low, between 2 and 5 per cent.
- Leak-proof sealing is achieved via impregnation of the leather with a tar-like substance obtained through the boiling and distillation of fir and pine wood.
- Fructification: zoospores produced from the cell contents of the filaments; resting spores formed from the contents of particular cells after impregnation by ciliated spermatozoids produced in distinct antheridial cells. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
- The sexual system of plants, seems first to have been observed in the fig tree; whose artificial impregnation is taught by Pliny, under the name of caprification. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829
- the impregnation of wood with preservative
- An extreme degree of anteversion or anteflexion, or retroversion or retroflexion, may interfere with impregnation, as the spermatozoa may find it difficult or impossible to reach the opening of the womb -- the external os. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
- Some of those animals in which superfoetation occurs can bring the embryos to birth even if a long time elapses between the two impregnations, if their kind is spermatic, if their body is not of On the Generation of Animals
- Where the Zeederbergs-Cheshire contact lacks ironstone horizons, the contact is variably sheared, and adjacent rocks are silicified and characterized by mostly oxidized sulphide impregnation.
