To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.
To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.
To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.
To fill or saturate all of the spaces of any item with another substance.
In reinforced plastics, the saturation of the reinforcement with a resin.
To saturate with resin. The most common application is saturating fiberglass with a catalyzed resin.
To fill the voids and spaces of an electrical unit with a compound. (This does not imply complete fill or complete coating of the surfaces by a hole-free film).
fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"
infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"
fertilize and cause to grow; "the egg was impregnated"
To saturate the voids and interstices of a reinforcement with a resin.
to soak, fill, or saturate.
To saturate reinforcement with plastic.
To fill the voids and spaces of an electrical unit with a compound; to provide liquid penetration into a porous or fibrous material; the dipping or immersion of a fibrous substrate into an adhesive liquid.
in roofing materials manufacture, to completely surround the fibers in a felt or mat with bitumen, with the spaces between the fibers partially or completely filled without a continuous coating of bitumen on the surface.
To cause, to be filled or permeated with; to saturate.
To saturate; in roofing, asphalt impregnated fiber glass roofing felts are fiber glass mats that have been completely permeated with asphalt bitumen.
In reinforced plastics, to saturate the reinforcement with a resin.
to coat, saturate, and/or surround the fibers of a reinforcing mat or fabric with an enveloping liquid material, (e.g., bitumen, elastomeric compound, etc.).
To saturate, fill, or permeate one substance with another, as wood with chemicals.
To infuse particles of one substance into the mass of another substance.
To saturate or permeate a material with a substance.
To fill the voids of a material with a compound.
