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Penetration: A proportion of households owning televisions or subscribing to cable.

Market Penetration-Share: Used in the context of general equities. Percent of trading volume in a stock that a particular market maker trades.

Market Penetration: The ratio of installed base versus population. (People who buy a product vs. People who do not.)

Penetration Anchor: In hydraulically burrowing organisms, any device used to penetrate and gain an initial purchase on the sediment so that the body can be thrust in farther

Transoateal: This refers to the penetration of both the internal and external cortical plate by a dental implant.

Acupuncture: Using needles (French, acu = needle) to stimulate or alter the flow of energy in the meridians

Frost Line: The depth of frost penetration in soil and/or the depth at which the earth will freeze and swell. This depth varies in different parts of the country.

Shielding: Electrons in orbitals with high penetration can shield the nucleus from less penetrating electrons. Because they are closer to the nucleus on average, they repel those farther away and lesse . . . View Full Definition

Varnish Stain: Varnishes colored with a dye and without the same power of penetrations as the true stains, leaving a colored coating on the surface.

Lifting: Lifting is the process by which the differences among multiple, concrete implementations of the same algorithm are abstracted away, producing a generic algorithm.