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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

acupunctuation, acupuncture, bore, boring, broach, drill hole, empiercement, fixing, goring, impalement, lancing, penetration, piercing, pricking, punching, puncture, puncturing, skewering, terebration, transfixation, transfixion, transforation, trepanning, trephining

Dictionary Results for perforation:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

perforation
    n 1: a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place
    2: a hole made in something; "a perforation of the eardrum"
    3: the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for
       ease of separation)

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Perforation \Per`fo*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. perforation.]
   1. The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
      --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture. "Slender
      perforations." --Sir T. Browne.
      [1913 Webster]

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