gibbousness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
gibbousness
    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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gibbous \Gib"bous\, a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See {Gibbose}.]
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   1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant;
      convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and
      the full moon.
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            The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member.
                                                  --Wiseman.
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   2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. --
      {Gib"bous*ly}, adv. -- {Gib"bous*ness}, n.
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