gibbousness

gib·bous

G0117600 (gĭb′əs)adj.1. a. Characterized by convexity; protuberant: a gibbous seashell.b. More than half but less than fully illuminated from the point of view of an observer. Used of phases of the moon or the planets.2. Archaic Having a hump; humpbacked.

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[Middle English, bulging, from Late Latin gibbōsus, hunch-backed, from Latin gibbus, hump.]

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gib′bous·ly adv.gib′bous·ness n.

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Noun

1.gibbousness - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, bulge, protrusion, protuberance, swelling, bump, prominencefrontal eminence - either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbitoccipital protuberance - prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bonebelly - a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail"caput - a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula"mogul - a bump on a ski slopenub, nubble - a small lump or protuberancesnag - a sharp protuberancewart - any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something