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extruct |
extruction |
extructive |
extructor |
extrude |
extrusion
| extrusive
| extuberance
| extuberancy
| extuberant
| extuberate
extrusion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun extrusion has 2 senses
- extrusion(n = noun.shape) bulge, bump, excrescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling - 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" has particulars: frontal eminence, occipital protuberance, belly, caput, mogul, nub, nubble, snag, wart
- extrusion(n = noun.act) expulsion - squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple" is a kind of squeeze, squeezing
is a kind of projection
Derived form verb extrude1
CIDE DICTIONARY
extrusion, n.
The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
extrusion
bas-relief, bellying, boldness, booting out, bulging, defenestration, detrusion, discharge, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emanation, embossment, emergence, emersion, eminence, emission, excrescence, excrescency, excretion, expulsion, extravasation, exudation, flow, flux, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, issuance, issue, jettison, kicking downstairs, low relief, obtrusion, ouster, ousting, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, rejection, relief, removal, salience, salient, secretion, surfacing, the boot, the bounce, throwing out, transudation, tuberosity, tuberousness, ventROGET THESAURUS
extrusion
Ejection
N ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion, exportation, eviction, extrusion, trajection, discharge, emesis, vomiting, vomition, egestion, evacuation, ructation, eructation, bloodletting, venesection, phlebotomy, paracentesis, expuition, exspuition, tapping, drainage, clearance, clearage, deportation, banishment, rouge's march, relegation, extradition, dislodgment, bouncer, chucker-out, vomit, vomitus, puke, barf, emitting, emitted Int, begone!, get you gone!, get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you!, go your way!, away with!, off with you!, get the hell out of here!, go about your business!, be off!, avaunt!, aroynt!, allez-vous-en!, jao!, va-t'en!.Excretion
N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.
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