noun
Meaning 1
The act of protruding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
protrusion
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/pɹəˈtɹuːʒən/
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noun
Meaning 2
The state of being protruded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Anything that protrudes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: protuberance
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the act of projecting out from something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: projection, jut, jutting
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of shape
noun
Meaning 5
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: projection
Narrower terms: frontal eminence, occipital protuberance, belly, caput, mogul, nub, nubble, snag, wart
History
Etymology
From French protrusion.
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: արտամղում (artamġum) — the act of protruding
- Bulgarian: стърчене (stǎrčene) — the act of protruding
- German: Herausragen — the act of protruding
- German: Heraustreten — the act of protruding
- German: Vorstehen — the act of protruding
- Hungarian: kidudorodás — the act of protruding
- Hungarian: kidülledés — the act of protruding
- Hungarian: kinyúlás — the act of protruding
- Hungarian: kiemelkedés — the act of protruding
- Hungarian: kitüremkedés — the act of protruding
- Hungarian: kiszögellés — the act of protruding
- Hungarian: előboltosulás — the act of protruding
- Russian: выпира́ние (vypiránije) — the act of protruding
- Russian: выпя́чивание (vypjáčivanije) — the act of protruding
- German: Ausbeulen — the state of being protruded
- German: Vorstülpen — the state of being protruded
- German: Hervortreiben — the state of being protruded
- German: Beulen — the state of being protruded
- German: Ausbuchten — the state of being protruded
- German: Treiben — the state of being protruded
- German: Heraustreiben — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kiemelkedés — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kiszögellés — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kidudorodás — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kinyúlás — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kidülledés — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kitüremkedés — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: előreugrás — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kiugrás — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kiállás — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kitolulás — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: kitüremlés — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: előboltosulás — the state of being protruded
- Hungarian: duzzanat — the state of being protruded
- Slovak: vyčnievanie — the state of being protruded
- Arabic: نَاتِئَة (nātiʔa) — anything that protrudes
- Bulgarian: издаденост (izdadenost) — anything that protrudes
- Bulgarian: изпъкналост (izpǎknalost) — anything that protrudes
- Finnish: kohouma — anything that protrudes
- Finnish: nysty — anything that protrudes
- Finnish: nystyrä — anything that protrudes
- Finnish: patti — anything that protrudes
- Finnish: kumpu — anything that protrudes
- Finnish: nyppylä — anything that protrudes
- French: protubérance — anything that protrudes
- German: Vorsprung — anything that protrudes
- German: Schwellung — anything that protrudes
- German: Ausbuchung — anything that protrudes
- German: Vorwölbung — anything that protrudes
- German: Überstand — anything that protrudes
- German: Vorstülpung — anything that protrudes
- German: Hervortreibung — anything that protrudes
- German: Beule — anything that protrudes
- German: Knubbel — anything that protrudes
- Hungarian: kiugró/kiálló rész — anything that protrudes
- Hungarian: nyúlvány — anything that protrudes
- Hungarian: dudor — anything that protrudes
- Irish: starr — anything that protrudes
- Russian: вы́ступ (výstup) — anything that protrudes
- Slovak: výčnelok — anything that protrudes
- Ukrainian: ви́ступ (výstup) — anything that protrudes