Impregnation

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That with which anything is impregnated.

II. Impregnation ·noun Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.

III. Impregnation ·noun The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

IV. Impregnation ·noun An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.

V. Impregnation ·noun 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.