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penetration

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penetration
The 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

penetration [‚pen·ə′trā·shən]
(aerospace engineering)
That phase of the letdown from high altitude to a specified approach altitude.
(metallurgy)
The distance from the original surface of the base metal to that point at which weld fusion ends.
A surface defect on a casting caused by molten metal filling voids in the sand mold.
(ordnance)
Distance to which a projectile sinks into a target.

penetration
1. The intersection of two vaulting surfaces.
2. The consistency of a bituminous material expressed as the distance (in hundredths of a centimeter) that a standard needle vertically penetrates a sample of the material under known conditions of loading, time, and temperature. Unless otherwise specified, the load, time, and temperature are understood to be 100 g, 5 sec, and 25°C (77°F), respectively.


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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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