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Gibbousness

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Noun

1. bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling

something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Example Sentences:
'the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge'
'the hump of a camel'
'he stood on the rocky prominence'
'the occipital protuberance was well developed'
'the bony excrescence between its horns'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gibbousness

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adjective
1. 
(of the moon or a planet) more than half but less than fully illuminated
2. 
having a hunchback; hunchbacked
3. 
bulging

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Gibbousness

see synonyms of gibbousness
adjective
1. 
protuberant; rounded and bulging
2. 
designating the moon, a planet, etc. in that phase in which more than half, but not all, of the face reflects sunlight to the earth
3. 
humpbacked; kyphotic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gibbousness

see synonyms of gibbousness
adj.
1.
a. Characterized by convexity; protuberant: a gibbous seashell.
b. More than half but less than fully illuminated from the point of view of an observer. Used of phases of the moon or the planets.
2. Archaic Having a hump; humpbacked.

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