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Penetration

Penetration Meaning & Definition
Penetration Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Penetration?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Penetration: incursion | insight

Related Terms | Find terms related to Penetration: 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

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

Penetration In Webster's Dictionary

\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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