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Gibbous

//ˈɡɪbəs// adj

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Adjective

1
Curved or bulged outward.
"In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]"
2
Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
"The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven."
3
Humpbacked.
"A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;"

Adjective

1
(used of the moon) more than half full wordnet
2
characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”).

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