penetration
/pɛ.nəˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ noun C1- The act of penetrating something.
- The insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse. · Any penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
- The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
- The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something.
- A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.
- The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service.
Plural penetrations
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It would have required the penetration of Œdipus or the Sphinx to have divined the irony the count concealed beneath these words, apparently uttered with the greatest politeness.
To this dumb language, which was so unintelligible to others, she answered by throwing her whole soul into the expression of her countenance, and in this manner were the conversations sustained between the blooming girl and the helpless invalid, whose body could scarcely be called a living one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered utterly incapable of obeying its impulses.
“I know it, and appeal to your penetration.
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