extrusion

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    bulge, excrescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, bump, swelling, prominence,
  • (n) squeezing out by applying pressure
    • an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube
    • the expulsion of pus from the pimple
    expulsion,

Synonyms

bulge excrescence gibbosity gibbousness hump jut protrusion protuberance bump swelling prominence expulsion

Words of close approximity

extrusive