extrusion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: extrusion	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for extrusion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extrusion n something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "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" Synonym(s): bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple" Synonym(s): extrusion, expulsion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extrusion \Ex*tru"sion\, n. The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.