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Penetration

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

Gaining unauthorized logical access to sensitive data by circumventing a system's protections.

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Senses

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the act of entering into or through something

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the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman

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an attack that penetrates into enemy territory

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the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)

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the ability to make way into or through something

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clear or deep perception of a situation

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
incursioninsight
plural
Penetrations
possessive
Penetration's
pluralpossessive
Penetrations'