impregnation

See also: imprégnation

English

Etymology

From Middle English impregnacioun, from Old French impregnacion, in turn from Late Latin impregnatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪmpɹɛɡˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

impregnation (countable and uncountable, plural impregnations)

1. The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
2. The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
3. That with which anything is impregnated.
4. (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
   • 1922, Intermountain Industry and Engineering: Official Publication: Utah Motor Transport Ass'n, volume 24:

     Oil-shales are often the last relics of a former impregnation with petroleum; they are associated with phenomena—such as the intrusive asphaltites or manjacks—common to petroliferous regions, but in many cases the parent oilfields, the sources of the former impregnation, are things of the past.

Translations

act of making pregnant

• Arabic: تَلْقِيح m (talqīḥ)
• Armenian: բեղմնավորում (hy) (beġmnavorum), հղիացում (hy) (hġiacʻum)
• Belarusian: апладне́нне n (apladnjénnje), запладне́нне n (zapladnjénnje)
• Bulgarian: опло́ждане n (oplóždane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受精 (zh) (shòujīng), 受胎 (zh) (shòutāi)

• Czech: oplození n, impregnace f
• Danish: befrugtning c
• Dutch: bevruchting (nl) f
• Faroese: gitnaður m
• Finnish: hedelmöitys (fi), hedelmöittäminen (fi)
• French: fécondation (fr) f, imprégnation (fr) f (dated)
• Georgian: განაყოფიერება (ganaq̇opiereba), დაორსულება (daorsuleba)
• German: Befruchtung (de) f
• Hindi: निषेचन (hi) m (niṣecan)
• Hungarian: átitatás (hu)
• Icelandic: frjóvgun f
• Indonesian: penghamilan (id)
• Irish: toirchiú m
• Italian: impregnazione (it) f, fecondazione (it) f
• Japanese: 受胎 (ja) (じゅたい, jutai), 懐胎 (ja) (かいたい, kaitai), 受精 (ja) (じゅせい, jusei)
• Korean: 수태 (ko) (sutae), 수정 (ko) (sujeong)
• Macedonian: оплодување n (oploduvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: befruktning m or f

  Nynorsk: befrukting (nn)

• Persian: تلقیح (fa) (talqih)
• Polish: zapłodnienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: impregnação f, fecundação (pt) f
• Romanian: fecundare (ro) f
• Russian: оплодотворе́ние (ru) n (oplodotvorénije), зача́тие (ru) n (začátije)
• Slovene: oplodnenie n
• Spanish: empreñación f, fecundación (es) f
• Swedish: befruktning (sv) c
• Tajik: бордоркунӣ (bordorkuni)
• Telugu: గర్భాదానము (te) (garbhādānamu)
• Ukrainian: заплі́днення n (zaplídnennja), заплі́днювання n (zaplídnjuvannja)

fact or process of saturating with something

• Bulgarian: напоя́ване n (napojávane), наси́щане (bg) n (nasíštane)
• Finnish: kyllästäminen (fi) (saturation); levittäminen (fi) (diffusion)
• French: imprégnation (fr) f
• Malay: impregnasi, pengisitepuan (saturation)
• Polish: impregnacja f
• Russian: пропи́тывание (ru) n (propítyvanije), насыще́ние (ru) n (nasyščénije)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French impregnacion, from Latin impregnatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ĩːpreɳaˈsjũː/, /ĩːpreɡnaˈsjũː/, /-õː/

Noun

impregnation f (plural impregnations)

1. impregnation, fertilization
2. saturation, impregnation