protuberance

See also: protubérance

English

Etymology

From French protubérance, from Latin prōtubērantia (“bulge; protuberance”), from prō + tūber (“swelling; protuberance”) + -antia (“-ance”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈtjuːbəɹəns/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈtuːbəɹəns/

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Noun

protuberance (plural protuberances)

1. A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.

   Synonyms: bulge, bump, protrusion, tuberosity

   • 1941 August, “Notes and News: The Swiss South Eastern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 376:

     For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.

   • 1989, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks:

     Ever since their creation the Daleks have been attempting to conquer and enslave as much of the universe as they could get their grubby little protuberances on.

   • 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in SCP Foundation‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:

     The orchestra is gone. All seventy of them. The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh. Each has, at its top, a heavy protuberance studded with goopy biological sensors and rubbery openings, and, sprouting from the very cap, lengths of various kinds of vile, off-coloured moss. They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.

Derived terms

• internal occipital protuberance
• mental protuberance

 

Related terms

• protuberant

Translations

Something that protrudes

• Bulgarian: издаденост (bg) f (izdadenost), изпъкналост (bg) n (izpǎknalost), подутина (bg) f (podutina)
• Catalan: protuberància f
• Czech: výčnělek m
• Dutch: gezwel (nl) n, uitwas (nl) m,uitgroeisel n
• Finnish: (bulge) pullistuma (fi), patti (fi); (swelling) paise (fi); (anything) ulkonema (fi), uloke (fi)
• French: saillie (fr) f, protubérance (fr) f
• German: Protuberanz (de) f, Vorsprung (de) m, Schwellung (de) f, Hervortreten n, Auswuchs (de) m, Hervorschwellung f, Knubbel (de) m, Beule (de) f, Grat (de) m, Ausbuchtung (de) f
• Irish: meall m, cnap m, boiric f, fadharcán m (on tree), breall f, cíoch f (on a potato), tul m, tulán m
• Italian: protuberanza (it) f
• Latin: tūber (la) n, protuberantia f
• Maori: kou, pūreke, tīngoingoi
• Portuguese: protuberância (pt) f, saliência (pt) f
• Russian: вы́ступ (ru) m (výstup), вы́пуклость (ru) f (výpuklostʹ), бугоро́к (ru) m (bugorók)
• Spanish: protuberancia (es) f
• Swedish: knöl (sv) c