penetrator
noun
a person or thing that penetrates, especially one that penetrates the defenses of an adversary, such as a military weapon or a player on a team.
penetrators
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pluralof penetrator.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The concepts range from remote-sensing instruments to penetrators that would try to burrow beneath Europa's ice-encrusted surface.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2016
The lander unit is actually made up of four landers; all will study seismology and geology, but two will act more as penetrators, allowing them to study rocks at a depth of 20 ft.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he is communing thoughtfully with mighty spirits like these—the penetrators to the central deep—is he not gaining, by the most royal road known to humanity, the most liberal education for the fullest life?
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
Next on our list comes Johann Ernst Galliard, happily named as a composer of theatre music, one of our earliest German "peaceful penetrators."
From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson
