noun
1. an attack that penetrates into enemy territory (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑incursion
• Hyponyms:
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
• 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)
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.