1. protrusion - 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"
Synonym(s): bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence
Hypernym(s): projection
2. protrusion - noun
· the act of projecting out from something
Synonym(s): projection, jut, jutting
Hypernym(s): change_of_shape
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