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Protrusion definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROTRU'SION, n. s as z. The act of thrusting forward or beyond the usual limit; a thrusting or driving; a push.

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]
2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin protrudere Date: 1646 1. the act of protruding ; the state of being protruded 2. something (as an anatomical part or excrescence) that protrudes Synonyms: see projection

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(protrusions) A protrusion is something that sticks out from something. (FORMAL) He grabbed at a protrusion of rock with his right hand. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Projection, protuberance.

Moby Thesaurus

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