impregnation

Meanings

Plural: impregnations

Noun

• 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 impregnation of wood with preservative"
• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
• The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
• The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
• That with which anything is impregnated.
• An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.

Synonyms

fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization, saturation