gibbousness

gib·bous  (gbs)

adj.

1.

a. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.

b. More than half but less than fully illuminated. Used of the moon or a planet.

2. Having a hump; humpbacked.

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

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gibbous·ly adv.

gibbous·ness n.

Thesaurus

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, prominence frontal eminence - either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit occipital protuberance - prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone belly - 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 slope nub, nubble - a small lump or protuberance snag - a sharp protuberance wart - any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something