impregnation

impregnation has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.
• n.. The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.
• n.. That with which anything is impregnated.
• n.. Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.
• n.. An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
• n.. creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
• n.. the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"
• n.. material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"