Usually means: Entering or passing through effectively.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word penetrating:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. penetrating: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. penetrating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penetrating: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penetrating: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penetrating: Vocabulary.com
  6. Penetrating, penetrating: Wordnik
  7. penetrating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. penetrating: Wiktionary
  9. penetrating: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. penetrating: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. penetrating: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. penetrating: Dictionary.com
  13. penetrating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Penetrating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. penetrating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. penetrating: Rhymezone
  17. Penetrating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. penetrating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. penetrating: Free Dictionary
  20. penetrating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. penetrating: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penetrating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penetrating: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penetrating: Idioms

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

(Note: See penetrate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  able to pierce or penetrate
adjective:  looking deeply into; piercing
adjective:  demonstrating acute or keen understanding

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