Usually means: Start of pregnancy through fertilization.
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  1. conception: Merriam-Webster
  2. conception: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conception: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conception: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conception: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conception, conception: Wordnik
  7. conception: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conception: Wiktionary
  9. conception: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conception: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conception: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. conception: Dictionary.com
  13. conception: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Conception (album), Conception (anime), Conception (band), Conception (biology), Conception (film), Conception (idea), Conception (song), Conception (video game), Conception: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Conception: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. conception: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. conception: Rhymezone
  18. Conception: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. conception: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. conception: FreeDictionary.org
  21. conception: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  23. conception: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
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  1. Conception (idea), conception: Legal dictionary

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  1. Conception (idea), conception: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. conception: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Conception: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Conception: Merck Manuals
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  7. conception: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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  9. Conception (idea), conception: Medical dictionary
  10. Conception: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conception: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See conceptional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (conception)

noun:  The act of conceiving.
noun:  The state of being conceived; the beginning.
noun:  The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
noun:  The start of pregnancy.
noun:  The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
noun:  The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
noun:  An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

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