Definition of Gibbousness

1. Noun. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. "The bony excrescence between its horns"


Definition of Gibbousness

1. Noun. The quality of being gibbous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbousness

gibbetted
gibbetting
gibbier
gibbing
gibblets
gibbon
gibbons
gibbose
gibbosities
gibbosity
gibbostities
gibbous
gibbous moon
gibbous moons
gibbously
gibbousness (current term)
gibbs-donnan effect
gibbs free energy
gibbsite
gibbsites
gibbus
gibe
gibed
gibel
gibelike
gibelotte
gibels
giber
gibers
gibes

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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