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Gibbousness definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GIB'BOUSNESS, n. Protuberance; a round prominence; convexity. [This word is preferable to gibbosity.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See gibbosity.