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BULGINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bulginess mean?
• BULGINESS (noun)
The noun BULGINESS has 1 sense:
1. the property possessed by a rounded convexity
Familiarity information: BULGINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property possessed by a rounded convexity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bulginess; roundedness
Hypernyms ("bulginess" is a kind of...):
convexity; convexness (the property possessed by a convex shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bulginess"):
ellipticity; oblateness (the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles)
Derivation:
bulgy (curving outward)
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