penetration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: blackjack
business
games
marketing
Etymology: From Middle English penetracioun, from Old French penetracïon, and its source, Latin penetrātiō, from the participle stem of penetrō (“pierce”, verb). Morphologically penetrate + -ion.
Base: penetrate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: penetrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of penetrating something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Any penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
gloss: The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] my observations of her looks and actions became acutely sharpened, and that to a degree, which, notwithstanding my efforts to conceal it, could not escape her penetration.
I have no respect for the penetration of any man who can read the report of that conversation, and still call the principal in it insane.
gloss: The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Arsenal lacked urgency and penetration in a lazy, lacklustre opening half, sucked in by Forest's strategy of sitting back in blocks of defence waiting to hit them on the counter.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The electrification of the lines radiating from Casablanca originated with the policy of economic penetration and conciliation pursued by Marshal Lyautey for the pacification of Morocco.
Derived words: autopenetration
depenetration
double penetration
interpenetration
market penetration
nonpenetration
overpenetration
penetration aid
penetration line
penetration pricing
penetration test
prepenetration
repenetration
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِخْتِرَاقْ
lang: Bulgarian
word: прони́кване
roman: proníkvane
lang: Catalan
word: penetració
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 滲透 /渗透
roman: shèntòu
lang: Esperanto
word: penetro
lang: Finnish
word: läpäisy
lang: Finnish
word: lävistys
lang: French
word: pénétration
lang: Gagauz
word: penetraţiya
lang: Galician
word: penetración
lang: German
word: Penetration
lang: Greek
word: διείσδυση
roman: dieísdysi
lang: Hungarian
word: behatolás
lang: Indonesian
word: penetrasi
lang: Italian
word: penetrazione
lang: Japanese
word: 浸透
roman: shintō
lang: Japanese
word: 貫通
roman: kantsū
lang: Ladino
word: penetrasyon
lang: Latin
word: penetratio
lang: Malay
word: penerobosan
lang: Malay
word: penembusan
lang: Malay
word: penyusupan
lang: Malay
word: penusukan
lang: Malay
word: pemantakan
lang: Malay
word: pengumbian
lang: Polish
word: penetracja
lang: Portuguese
word: penetração
lang: Romanian
word: penetrare
lang: Romanian
word: penetrație
lang: Russian
word: проника́ние
roman: pronikánije
lang: Russian
word: проникнове́ние
roman: proniknovénije
lang: Spanish
word: penetración
lang: Swedish
word: penetration
lang: Tagalog
word: pagtatagos
lang: Turkish
word: penetrasyon
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: نفوذ
roman: nüfuz