Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Impregnation has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
material with which something is impregnated
"the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
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
The act of making pregnant; fertilization.