copulation

CEFRC1

/kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/

noun

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noun
The act of sexual intercourse between animals or people.
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noun
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Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.

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I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

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I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.
2019, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, History and Applications, page 401
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII
In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.
1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30

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From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“to join, unite, connect”).