Impregnation

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

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.

That with which anything is impregnated.

Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.

An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.

the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"

creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant