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Definition of Protuberances
1. protuberance [n] - See also: protuberance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protuberances
Literary usage of Protuberances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Exceptional protuberances developed on opposite sides by close approach.—According
to the well-known tidal principle, these exceptional protuberances would ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Simply to supply the required planetary matter, the protuberances need include
but this small fraction of the ancestral sun; ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Exceptional protuberances developed on opposite sides by close approach.—According
to the well-known tidal principle, these exceptional protuberances would ..."
4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"Immediately after the totality, two magnificent protuberances appeared : one of
... Many protuberances, moreover, were absolutely detached from the sun, ..."
5. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1874)
"SOLAR SPOTS AND protuberances. Pere Secchi has lately presented to the French
Academy a paper containing some new generalizations on the relations of the ..."
6. The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings Manual by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1882)
"SOLAR protuberances. PLATE II. THE chromosphere forming the outlying envelope of
the Sun, is subject, as has been shown above, to great disturbances in ..."
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