1.
[syn: insertion, introduction, intromission]
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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
intromission
n 1: the act of putting one thing into another [syn:
insertion, introduction, intromission]