Associations to the word «Impregnation»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
IMPREGNATION, noun. The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
IMPREGNATION, noun. The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
IMPREGNATION, noun. That with which anything is impregnated.
IMPREGNATION, noun. (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
Dictionary definition
IMPREGNATION, noun. Material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue".
IMPREGNATION, noun. The process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether".
IMPREGNATION, 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.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.