Impregnation - Definition

n 1: material with which something is impregnated; "the
impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
2: the process of totally saturating something with a substance;
"the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation
of cotton with ether" [syn: impregnation, saturation]
3: creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of
sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
[syn: fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation,
impregnation]