'Extrusion' definitions:
Definition of 'extrusion'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
noun
Squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple" [syn: extrusion, expulsion]
Definition of 'Extrusion'
From: GCIDE
- Extrusion \Ex*tru"sion\, n. The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extrusion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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