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English
Etymology
From Late Latin implētiō (past participle of Latin impleō (“I fill up”) + -iō); see also implement.
Pronunciation
Noun
impletion (countable and uncountable, plural impletions)
- An act of filling; the state of being full.
1842, W. Jardine, P. J. Selby, George Johnston, Charles C. Babington, J. H. Balfour, Richard Taylor, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 10:Irregular metamorphoses of flowers are extremely common, and usually consist either of an actual muliplication of petals, or of the transformation of stamens and pistils into petals ; the effect of these chages being the formation of double flowers, the impletion of which appears to take place in different ways in different plants.
1867, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 1:The greater the impletion of the artery during systole, the longer is the interval between the primary expansion and the acme of distension, and the bolder the curve which indicates it.
- A substance which fills, a filling.
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