penetration

• WordNet 3.6
  • n penetration the act of entering into or through something "the penetration of upper management by women"
  • n penetration the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
  • n penetration an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
  • n penetration the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
  • n penetration the ability to make way into or through something "the greater penetration of the new projectiles will result in greater injuries"
  • n penetration clear or deep perception of a situation
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• Interesting fact: Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.
• • Penetration Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration .
  • Penetration 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.""A penetration into the difficulties of algebra."
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• Interesting fact: Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.
• • n penetration The act of penetrating or piercing.
  • n penetration Power of penetrating; specifically, in gunnery, the depth a projectile will pass into any material against which it is fired. The penetration into earth or sand is generally expressed in feet; into armor or metal plating, in inches. The English “thick-plate formula,” now much used by artillerists, is , in which t = the penetration in inches, and E = the energy in foot-tons per inch of circumference of shot.
  • n penetration Mental acuteness; discernment; insight: as, a man of extraordinary penetration.
  • n penetration In optics: Of a microscope objective, its power of giving fairly distinct vision for points both inside and outside of its exact focus.
  • n penetration Of a telescope, its space-penetrating power, as Herschel called it—i. e. the number of times by which the distance of an observed star might be increased while still appearing of the same brightness in the telescope as it does to the naked eye. It is proportional to the square root of the illuminating power, and for an achromatic telescope is approximately equal to four times its aperture in inches.
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• • n Penetration the act or power of penetrating or entering: acuteness: discernment: the space-penetrating power of a telescope
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• Walter Benjamin

  

  “Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.”
• William J. Durant

  

  “Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.”
• Gerard De Nerval

  

  “Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.”
• Niccolo Machiavelli

  

  “Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”
• Igor Stravinsky

  

  “Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?”
• Sir Thomas Beecham

  

  “Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”

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