protrusion
/pɹəˈtɹuːʒən/
protrusion noun: the act of protruding.
Noun
protrusion (countable and uncountable, plural protrusions)
- The act of protruding.
- The tortoise, with its characteristic protrusion of the head and neck, was a symbol sacred to Venus. It represented the procreative principle.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 235
- The state of being protruded.
- A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.
- Anything that protrudes.
- Synonyms:
- protuberance
protrusion meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Arabic
protrusion in Tamil
- துருத்தம், புடையம், பிதுக்கம்
protrusion in Malayalam
- lump, bump, knob
- മുന്നോട്ടു തള്ളൽ, ഉന്തിക്കൽ, ഉന്തൽ, മുഴപ്പ്, സ്ഫാരം, മുഴ
- sticking out, jutting, projection
- മുമ്പോട്ട് ഉന്തിനില്ക്കൽ, വെളിയിലേക്കു നീണ്ടുനിൽക്കൽ, പിതുക്കം, തള്ളിനിൽക്കൽ, എഴുന്നുനിൽക്കൽ, മുഴച്ചുനില്ക്കൽ
protrusion in Arabic
- anything that protrudes
- نَاتِئَة nātiʔa
Examples of protrusion in a sentence
- (geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide.
- They can make a special protrusion on their surface, called F-pilus.
- Long and snout-nosed with rows of platelike bony protrusions, sturgeon have a dinosaur-era look.
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Forms of protrusion
| plural | protrusions |
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Origin of protrusion
From French protrusion.
Words formed from protrusion
Words that rhyme with protrusion
Questions about protrusion
- What does protrusion mean?
- Protrusion means the act of protruding.
- What is protrusion in Tamil?
- Protrusion in Tamil is துருத்தம், புடையம், பிதுக்கம். See Protrusion meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is protrusion?
- Protrusion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce protrusion?
- Protrusion is pronounced /pɹəˈtɹuːʒən/.
- What is the plural of protrusion?
- The plural of protrusion is protrusions.
Words near protrusion in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: protrusion (page history and authors); protrusion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); protrusion (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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