Protrusion \Pro*tru"sion\, n.
1. The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the
usual limit.
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2. The state of being protruded, or thrust forward.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
protrusion
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence]
2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: projection,
jut, jutting]
WordNet (r) 2.0
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "protrusion":
bas-relief, bellying, boldness, bulge, bulging, bump, embossment,
eminence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, gibbosity,
gibbousness, high relief, jut, knob, low relief, lump, projection,
prominence, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, salience, salient,
swelling, tuberosity, tuberousness, tumescence
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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