penetration

1. n. The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult. Source: opted

2. n. Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration. Source: opted

3. n. an attack that penetrates into enemy territory Source: wordnet

4. n. clear or deep perception of a situation Source: wordnet

5. n. the act of entering into or through something Source: wordnet

6. n. the ability to make way into or through something Source: wordnet

7. n. the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target) Source: wordnet

8. n. the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman Source: wordnet

9. 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. Source: webster

10. n:100 n. an attack that penetrates into enemy territory n. clear or deep perception of a situation n. the act of entering into or through something Source: ecdict

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