Perforation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERFORATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of perforating
• a hole made by boring or piercing
• a small hole or row of small holes punched in a sheet of paper, e.g. of postage stamps, so that a part can be torn off easily
• the action or state of perforating or being perforated
• The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
• A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture.
• a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place
• a hole made in something
• the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of perforating

Words related to PERFORATION

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Words that contain PERFORATION

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How to use PERFORATION in a sentence

• Such a bullet under ordinary circumstances makes a clean perforation, piercing the soft tissues, and sometimes the bones, with very little damage.
• On the other hand, inland cities had come to be places of embarkation because of the continual perforation of the waves that were forcing their way in.
• It was so easy a thing, that perforation of a torso.
• The thickened horny laminae forming the anterior boundary of the cavity are here depicted, together with commencing perforation of the horny sole by the os pedis.
• In primitive times the worship of clefts in rocks, holes in the earth, or stones having a natural or artificial perforation, appears to have been almost universal.
• The central or most prominent part of the distended portion of the capsule is chosen for perforation and an area of an inch and a half in diameter is shaved.
• The window can be replaced by a rubber diaphragm with a perforation for forceps if desired.
• In either condition perforation of the esophagus is possible by pushing a sharp foreign body through the normal wall or by penetrating a wall weakened by disease.
• Perforation of the esophageal wall may cause death from septic mediastinitis.
• If the foreign body becomes dislodged and moves downward, the danger of intestinal perforation is encountered.
• The perforation is about five-eighths of an inch in diameter.
• The perforation is one-half an inch in diameter, and is quite symmetrical.
• In the middle of the plate there is a circular perforation one-fourth of an inch in diameter.
• The middle segment of the body is nearly round and has near the center a large conical perforation.
• A conical perforation has been made toward the larger end.
• In the centre of the forehead there was a perforation, evidently made by a pistol-bullet.
• He found a perforation at the top forming an arch of great width and height, and above it, at the very summit of the peak, were loose pieces of granite of considerable size.
• A piece of stick or bone thrust into the perforation in the nose completes the costume.
• Bottom of area long-oval, smooth, sometimes with a perforation above the mouth.
• Cells oblong, narrowed below, with a single perforation, in the upper and outer part behind.

Similar words containing PERFORA without suffix tion

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