Extrusion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Extrusion \Ex*tru"sion\, n.
     The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out;
     expulsion.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  extrusion
       n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
            a form [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
             {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {excrescence}]
       2: squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion
          of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion
          of pus from the pimple" [syn: {expulsion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "extrusion":
     bas-relief, bellying, boldness, booting out, bulging,
     defenestration, detrusion, discharge, effusion, egestion,
     ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emanation,
     embossment, emergence, emersion, eminence, emission, excrescence,
     excrescency, excretion, expulsion, extravasation, exudation, flow,
     flux, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, issuance, issue,
     jettison, kicking downstairs, low relief, obtrusion, ouster,
     ousting, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance,
     protuberancy, rejection, relief, removal, salience, salient,
     secretion, surfacing, the boot, the bounce, throwing out,
     transudation, tuberosity, tuberousness, vent