Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Susceptibility of being penetrated; capability of occupying a place occupied at the same time by something else.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.

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  • noun The extent to which something is penetrable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)

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Examples

  • Thus every chemical element, when irradiated by X-rays, emits two rays of different penetrability, that is to say, every element can by fluorescence emit an X-ray spectrum of two lines or line-groups, the so-called K-series and L-series.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 - Presentation 1967

  • Ambassador Munteanu: Moldova is one of the most open world economies in terms of access to the market and penetrability of foreign goods.

    Rahim Kanani: An Interview With Igor Munteanu, Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to the USA and Canada Rahim Kanani 2011

  • U.S. repatriate Billie Cohen, a New York magazine editor who once worked in Singapore, chalked the country's low penetrability rating up to a well-organized expat network.

    World's Friendliest Countries 2011

  • "We began tests on the penetrability and connectivity of the registry," he said.

    Czech Emissions Registry Set to Reopen Sean Carney 2011

  • Ambassador Munteanu: Moldova is one of the most open world economies in terms of access to the market and penetrability of foreign goods.

    Rahim Kanani: An Interview With Igor Munteanu, Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to the USA and Canada Rahim Kanani 2011

  • The debate is the next day, so Cox wants to run out to the library to scout out its penetrability.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • [N] othing about any of the findings we have discussed establishes the synchronic cognitive penetrability of the Müller-Lyer stimuli.

    Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

  • Susceptibility to the Müller-Lyer illusion, theory-neutral observation, and the diachronic penetrability of the visual input system.

    Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

  • In a subsequent paper, Pylyshyn (1978) introduced an important new argument against pictorialism, based on the concepts (which he introduced) of cognitive penetrability and impenetrability.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Both isotropy and Quineanness are features that preclude encapsulation, since their possession by a system would require potentially unlimited access to the contents of central memory, and hence cognitive penetrability to the max.

    Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

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