Usually means: Creating holes through materials, objects.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word perforation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. perforation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perforation: Merriam-Webster
  3. perforation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perforation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perforation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perforation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Perforation, perforation: Wordnik
  8. perforation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. perforation: Wiktionary
  10. perforation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perforation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perforation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. perforation: Dictionary.com
  14. perforation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. perforation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Perforation (disambiguation), Perforation (oil well), Perforation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Perforation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. perforation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. perforation: Rhymezone
  20. Perforation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. perforation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. perforation: FreeDictionary.org
  23. perforation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. perforation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perforation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perforation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. perforation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Perforation: Merck Manuals
  4. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. perforation: Medical dictionary
  9. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Perforation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perforation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See perforations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of perforating or the state of being perforated.
noun:  Any opening in a solid object.
noun:  (medicine) An abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture.
noun:  A series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts.
noun:  (mathematics) That portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it.

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