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pro·tru·sion

(prō-tro͞o′zhən)

a. The act of protruding.

b. The state of being protruded.

2. Something that protrudes.

[Latin prōtrūsus, past participle of prōtrūdere, to protrude; see protrude + -ion.]

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protrusion

(prəˈtruːʒən)

1. something that protrudes

2. the state or condition of being protruded

3. the act or process of protruding

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pro•tru•sion

(proʊˈtru ʒən, prə-)

n.

1. the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.

2. something that protrudes; projection.

[1640–50; < Latin prōtrūs(us) (past participle of prōtrūdere to protrude) + -ion]

Protrusion

See Also: BELONGING, OBVIOUSNESS, VISIBILITY

Bulges out like bubble gum before popping —Tom Robbins
Protruding like a warning finger —Beryl Markham
[A church spire] standing out conspicuously like an indicating finger —MacDonald Harris
Standing out unnaturally, like a male harpist in an all-girl orchestra —William Safire
Stand out like a blind man at a tit show —William Diehl
Stand out like a polar bear in the desert —Andrew Kaplan
Stand out like a raisin on a coconut cake —Pat Conroy
Stands out like a blackberry in a pan of milk —American colloquialism, attributed to Vermont
Stick out like a bug on a butter knife —Loren D. Estleman
Sticks out like the belly of a pregnant woman —Robert Lowell

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Noun	1.	protrusion - 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, gibbousness, hump, jut, bulge, 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
	2.	protrusion - the act of projecting out from something jutting, jut, projection change of shape - an action that changes the shape of something

protrusion

noun protuberance, swelling, lump, bump, projection, bulge, hump, jut, outgrowth an ugly protrusion on the ankle where the bone had not set properly

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

protrusion

noun

A part that protrudes or extends outward:

bulge, jut, knob, knot, overhang, projection, protuberance.

Translations

προεξοχή

protrusión protuberancia

protuberanza sporgenza

uitsteeksel

protrusion

[prəˈtruːʒən] N → saliente m, protuberancia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

protrusion

(= protruding object) → Vorsprung m

(= protruding) (of rock, buttress, teeth etc) → Vorstehen nt; (of forehead, chin) → Vorspringen nt; (of eyes) → Vortreten nt

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"But," said the Spectator, "you said in your famous speech before the Society for the Prevention of the Protrusion of Nail Heads from Plank Sidewalks that Kings were blood-smeared oppressors and hell- bound loafers."

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they deified the crocodile of the nile, because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue, or as least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of protrusion. If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.

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She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery.

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There are two major causes of cellulite; the hardening of the connective tissue that is the support system for fat; and the protrusion of fat cells into the lower part of the skin.

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Alert officers, however, may notice a slight bulge or protrusion that raises their suspicions.

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He spotted a protrusion and used a scribe to feel for a lip.

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The control protrusion type has a casing designed to move within the winter tire in response to the degree of loading and their outer wear.

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The research consisted of analyzing the effects of fetal bovine serum on the average cell diameter, protrusion count, and length of protrusions of central nervous system neurons harvested from the frontal brain lobes of chicken embryos ranging from seven to nine days of development.

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The DSC-F88 has a zoom function that doesn't involve the physical protrusion of its 300-degree rotating lens, a resolution of 5.1 megapixels, a 1.8-inch LCD monitor and magnifier mode, so users can take photos from as close as one centimeter.