Meaning & use
Perforator
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A tool or instrument designed to make holes or punctures in a material, or, in surgery, an instrument used to pierce bone or tissue.
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The office worker used a perforator to punch clean holes along the edge of the report.
The surgeon used a perforator to carefully create an opening in the skull during the operation.
A note on using this word
"Perforator" appears in fields ranging from office supplies to surgical instrumentation, always denoting a tool that creates holes.
Words with a similar meaning
punchpiercer
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