Meaning of PENETRATION
| Pronunciation: | | `peni'treyshun
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- [n] the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women"
- [n] the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
- [n] an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- [n] the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
- [n] the ability to make way into or through something; "the greater penetration of the new projectiles will result in greater injuries"
- [n] clear or deep perception of a situation
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| | Synonyms: | | incursion, insight |
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| | See Also: | | ability, attack, breakthrough, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, depth, entering, entrance, entry, foray, incoming, infiltration, ingress, intercourse, interpenetration, invasion, maraud, market penetration, onrush, onset, onslaught, perception, permeation, raid, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pen"e*tra`tion\, n. [L. penetratio: cf. F.
p['e]n['e]tration.]
1. The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering;
also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or
comprehending, anything difficult.
And to each in ward part, With gentle penetration,
though unseen, Shoots invisible virtue even to the
deep. --Milton.
A penetration into the difficulties of algebra.
--Watts.
2. Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a
person of singular penetration. --Walpole.
Syn: Discernment; sagacity; acuteness; sharpness;
discrimination. See {Discernment}, and {Sagacity}.
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| | Related Terms: | | access, acuity, acumen, acupunctuation, acupuncture, acuteness, admission, apperception, astuteness, bore, boring, broach, cleverness, cogency, critical discernment, decoction, diffusion, discernment, discrimination, drill hole, embedment, empiercement, entrance, entree, entry, farseeingness, farsightedness, fixing, flair, foresight, foresightedness, goring, graft, grafting, imbuement, impaction, impactment, impalement, implantation, import, importation, importing, impregnation, incision, incisiveness, income, incoming, infiltration, infixion, infusion, ingoing, ingress, ingression, injection, inoculation, input, inroad, insertion, insight, insinuation, instillation, instillment, intake, intelligence, interjection, interpenetration, interpolation, introduction, introgression, intromission, intrusion, judgment, keenness, lancing, leakage, longheadedness, longsightedness, marination, overrunning, overspreading, overswarming, penetrating, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, percolation, perforation, perfusion, permeation, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, pervasion, piercing, pricking, providence, punching, puncture, puncturing, quick-wittedness, reception, sagaciousness, sagacity, saturation, seepage, sensibility, sensitivity, sentience, shrewdness, skewering, soaking, steeping, suffusion, terebration, tessellation, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, transfusion, transplant, transplantation, trenchancy, trepanning, trephining, understanding, wit |
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