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penetrationThe successful unauthorized breach of a security perimeter. See penetration test. penetration 1. Marketing the proportion of the total number of potential purchasers of a product or service who either are aware of its existence or actually buy it 2. another name for depth of field How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Much higher and harder exercises of judgment and penetration may reasonably be expected from the upper graduates in criticism. Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer. Thus, in the most brutal and formidable of the soldier class -- creatures almost on a level with women in their lack of intelligence -- it is found that, as they wax in the mental ability necessary to employ their tremendous penetrating power to advantage, so do they wane in the power of penetration itself. |
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