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English Dictionary: gibbousness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for gibbousness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gibbousness 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gibbous \Gib"bous\, a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See {Gibbose}.] 1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. --Wiseman. 2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- {Gib"bously}, adv. -- {Gib"bousness}, n.