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  • n  the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.)
  • n  incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand

  • At first it seems a small joke in reference to Bohr's logorrheaic writings, whose impenetrability became legendary.
  • He was quite clear about what he wanted to avoid: out-of-date talk and learned impenetrability in general.
  • Other yeggs scowled at the thought of having to add to their equipmentjimmy, "soup" (nitroglycerin), oxyacetylene blowtorch a gas mask of exceedingly high impenetrability.
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