penetration

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

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)
- 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
- 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

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  insight, incursion