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penetration
noun
1. an attack that penetrates into enemy territory (Freq. 2)
Syn: ↑incursion
Hypernyms: ↑attack, ↑onslaught, ↑onset, ↑onrush
Hyponyms:
interpenetration, ↑breakthrough, ↑invasion, ↑infiltration, ↑foray, ↑raid, ↑maraud
2. clear or deep perception of a situation (Freq. 1)
Syn: ↑insight
Derivationally related forms: ↑penetrate
Hypernyms: ↑perception
3. the act of entering into or through something (Freq. 1)
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the penetration of upper management by women

Hypernyms: ↑entrance, ↑entering, ↑entry, ↑ingress, ↑incoming
Hyponyms: ↑interpenetration, ↑permeation, ↑market penetration
4. the ability to make way into or through something
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the greater penetration of the new projectiles will result in greater injuries

Derivationally related forms: ↑penetrate
Hypernyms: ↑ability
5. the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
Hypernyms: ↑depth, ↑deepness
6. the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
Derivationally related forms: ↑penetrate
Hypernyms:
sexual intercourse, ↑intercourse, ↑sex act, ↑copulation, ↑coitus, ↑coition, ↑sexual congress, ↑congress, ↑sexual relation, ↑relation, ↑carnal knowledge

Useful english dictionary. 2012.