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Definition of Impletion
1. n. The act of filling, or the state of being full.
Definition of Impletion
1. Noun. An act of filling; the state of being full. ¹
2. Noun. A substance which fills, a filling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impletion
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impletion
Literary usage of Impletion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"Where the impletion is the result of this alteration of the essential floral
organs, the plants are necessarily barren. Such, however, is not the case with ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... the different modes of impletion in them and compound Bowers. Before proceeding
farther, however, it will not be improper to ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"The moment of greatest impletion occurs at a variable interval, ... The greater
the impletion of the artery during systole, the longer is the interval ..."
4. The Horticultural Register by Sir Joseph Paxton, Joseph Harrison (1833)
"impletion by the radius, is when, by the multiplication of the radius, the disk
of the ... In this sort of impletion, which belongs only to radiate flowers, ..."
5. The study of medicine by John Mason Good (1829)
"A moderate proportion of excitement and impletion is hence imperiously called
for; and our discretion is principally to be exerted in determining the nature ..."
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