'Intromission' definitions:
Definition of 'intromission'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of putting one thing into another [syn: insertion, introduction, intromission]
Definition of 'Intromission'
From: GCIDE
- Intromission \In`tro*mis"sion\, n. [Cf. F. intromission. See Intromit.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically; (Zool.) The insertion of the male copulatory organ into the female in the process of coitus. --South. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Four populations [of the vlei rat] varied in a number of parameters of copulatory behavior, such as latency to first mount, number of intromissions per series, and latency to intromission after first ejaculation. --Edith Dempster (African Small Mammals Newsletter, Issue No. 16, May 1996, Laboratoir Mammif[`e]res & Oiseaux, Paris) [PJC]
- 3. The act of letting go in; admission. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Scots Law) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intromission'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptance,
- admission,
- admittance,
- baptism,
- embedment,
- enlistment,
- enrollment,
- entrance,
- graft,
- grafting,
- immission,
- impaction,
- impactment,
- implantation,
- inauguration,
- induction,
- infixion,
- infusion,
- initiation,
- injection,
- inoculation,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- installation,
- instatement,
- interjection,
- interpolation,
- introduction,
- investiture,
- ordination,
- penetration,
- perfusion,
- tessellation,
- transplant,
- transplantation