imprinting
Meaning of imprinting
- To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
- To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
- To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
noun
Any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.
Information about imprinting
- The plural form of imprinting is: imprintings.
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Hyphenation of imprinting
im-print-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- imprinting is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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