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GIBBOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gibbousness mean?
• GIBBOUSNESS (noun)
The noun GIBBOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Familiarity information: GIBBOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling
Context example:
the bony excrescence between its horns
Hypernyms ("gibbousness" is a kind of...):
projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gibbousness"):
frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)
occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)
belly (a part that bulges deeply)
caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)
mogul (a bump on a ski slope)
nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)
snag (a sharp protuberance)
wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))
Derivation:
gibbous (characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column)
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