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Definition of Bulging
1. Adjective. Curving or bulging outward.
Similar to: Bell-shaped, Biconvex, Convexo-convex, Lenticular, Lentiform, Broken-backed, Hogged, Convexo-concave, Gibbose, Gibbous, Helmet-shaped, Planoconvex, Umbel-like, Umbellate
Also: Protrusive
Antonyms: Concave
Derivative terms: Convexity, Convexity, Convexness
2. Adjective. Curving outward.
Similar to: Protrusive
Derivative terms: Bulb, Bulge, Bulginess, Protuberance, Protuberance, Protuberate, Protuberate
Definition of Bulging
1. Verb. (present participle of bulge) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bulging
1. bulge [v] - See also: bulge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulging
Literary usage of Bulging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Auscultation and Percussion: Together with the Other Methods of Physical by Samuel Jones Gee (1907)
"LOCAL bulging.—bulging of a part of the chest walls is met with in circumscribed
... The bulging indicative of cardiac or pericar- diac enlargements occurs ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"Von Eiselsberg observed in one of his cases that on distending the stomach a
bulging of the left side of the epigastrium was produced ; after a few moments ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"This had given her only moderate pain, but it had grown of late On January 19,
1894, the sternum showed a slight bulging at the junction of the manubrium ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... and as they increase in size they develop a peculiar bulging in the trunk near
the water line. These dome-shaped bases become as much as twelve feet in ..."
5. The Theory of Strains in Girders and Similar Structures: With Observations by Bindon Blood Stoney (1873)
"Crushing may be subdivided into buckling, bulging, and splintering. («. ...
bulging is the upsetting or spreading out under pressure of ductile or fibrous ..."
6. The Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering by William Hubert Burr (1903)
"bulging of Plates. A plate offers resistance to "bulging" when it is simply
supported or firmly fixed around its entire edge and carries a single or ..."
7. The naturalist on the river Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892, Henry Walter Bates (1863)
"... were originally peopled by the aborigines, but these have long since become
extinct or amalgamated with the white immigrants. I bulging-stemmed Palm ..."
8. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"bulging at the bottom of the neck; but their head is entirely covered with feathers.
Their generic characters consist in a very strong beak, straight, ..."
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