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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for intromission:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
intromission
    n 1: the act of putting one thing into another [syn:
         insertion, introduction, intromission]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

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