perforation
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.
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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.