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CONVEXITY

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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Convexity.
Category: 3. Superficial form

Synonyms:

-nouns
convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.], swell., intumescence; tumour, tumor; tubercle, tuberosity; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch., tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, boss, embossment, bump, clump; sugar loaf (sharpness); bow; mamelon; hub, hubble [U.S.]; molar., pimple; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil (disease); air bubble, blob, papule, verruca., papilla, nipple, teat, pap, breast, dug, mammilla; proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle; belly, corporation; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange., peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag., cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster., relief, relievo, cameo; basso-rilievo, mezzo-rilievo, alto-rivievo; low relief, bas relief, high relief., hill (height); cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze, ness.
-verbs
be prominent; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle., render prominent; raise; emboss, chase.
-adjectives
convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting; bossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated, claviform; hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform; papulous, papilose; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous; cornute, odontoid; lentiform, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose., salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated (expanded).

Antonyms:

concavity
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Main Entry: bulge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: swollen object

Synonyms:

appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart

Antonyms:

depression
Main Entry: hump
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: swelling, projection

Synonyms:

bulge, bump, convexedness, convexity, dune, elevation, eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, hill, hummock, hunch, knap, knob, knurl, kyphosis, mound, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, ridge, swell, tumescence

Antonyms:

depression
Main Entry: lobe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flap

Synonyms:

convexity, ear, excurvation, fold, lap, node, portion, projection, protuberance, section, wattle
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