Extrusion \Ex*tru"sion\, n.
The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out;
expulsion.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
extrusion
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, excrescence]
2: squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion
of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion
of pus from the pimple" [syn: expulsion]
WordNet (r) 2.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "extrusion":
bas-relief, bellying, boldness, booting out, bulging,
defenestration, detrusion, discharge, effusion, egestion,
ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emanation,
embossment, emergence, emersion, eminence, emission, excrescence,
excrescency, excretion, expulsion, extravasation, exudation, flow,
flux, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, issuance, issue,
jettison, kicking downstairs, low relief, obtrusion, ouster,
ousting, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance,
protuberancy, rejection, relief, removal, salience, salient,
secretion, surfacing, the boot, the bounce, throwing out,
transudation, tuberosity, tuberousness, vent
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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