Protrusion

3 definitions found

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

  Protrusion \Pro*tru"sion\, n.
     1. The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the
        usual limit.
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     2. The state of being protruded, or thrust forward.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  protrusion
       n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
            a form [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
             {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {extrusion}, {excrescence}]
       2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: {projection},
           {jut}, {jutting}]

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

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "protrusion":
     bas-relief, bellying, boldness, bulge, bulging, bump, embossment,
     eminence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, gibbosity,
     gibbousness, high relief, jut, knob, low relief, lump, projection,
     prominence, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, salience, salient,
     swelling, tuberosity, tuberousness, tumescence