protrusion

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
noun the act of projecting out from something

From French protrusion.

"Upon the solidity of bodies depend their mutual impulse, resistance, and protrusion." — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey
"I dass ter!" was the defiant reply accompanied by the protrusion of a long thin tongue. — Flamsted quarries, Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
The surface of this long sheet-iron cigar no longer offered a single protrusion that could hamper its maneuvers. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence

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