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Definition of Gibbousness
1. Noun. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. "The bony excrescence between its horns"
Specialized synonyms: Frontal Eminence, Occipital Protuberance, Belly, Caput, Mogul, Nub, Nubble, Snag, Wart
Generic synonyms: Projection
Derivative terms: Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulgy, Excrescent, Gibbous, Gibbous, Hump, Protrude, Protrude, Protuberant, Protuberate
Definition of Gibbousness
1. Noun. The quality of being gibbous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbousness
Literary usage of Gibbousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"A phenomenon which occurs in different «liseuses, particularly in rickets and
caries of the vertebra. See Hump. CARIOSA, Vertebral disease. gibbousness ..."
2. American Medical and Philosophical Register: Or, Annals of Medicine, Natural edited by David Hosack, John Wakefield Francis (1814)
"... the flatness of then noses, and the gibbousness of their legs, &c. these are
effects which may as easily be accounted for from the operation of known ..."
3. An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human by Samuel Stanhope Smith (1810)
"In the northern states, the gibbousness of the leg in the blacks is disappearing
more speedily. In Princeton, and its vicinity I daily see persons of the ..."
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