Dictionary Definition
protrusion
Noun
1 something that bulges out or is protuberant or
projects from a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of protruding.
- The state of being protruded.
- Anything that protrudes.
Related terms
Translations
- Spanish: protuberancia
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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