perforation
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
perforation (countable and uncountable, plural perforations)
- The act of perforating or the state of being perforated.
- Any opening in a solid object.
- (medicine) An abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture.
- A series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts.
- (mathematics) That portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
any opening in a solid object
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medicine
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin perforātiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
perforation f (plural perforations)
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Further reading[edit]
- “perforation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.