'Gibbousness' definitions:
Definition of 'gibbousness'
(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]
Definition of 'Gibbousness'
From: GCIDE
- Gibbous \Gib"bous\, a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. [1913 Webster]
- The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. --Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- {Gib"bous*ly}, adv. -- {Gib"bous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]