Usually means: Excessive convexity or protuberance; bulging.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. gibbosity: Merriam-Webster
  2. gibbosity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gibbosity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gibbosity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gibbosity: Vocabulary.com
  6. gibbosity: Wordnik
  7. gibbosity: Wiktionary
  8. gibbosity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gibbosity: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gibbosity: Dictionary.com
  11. Gibbosity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. gibbosity: Rhymezone
  13. gibbosity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. gibbosity: FreeDictionary.org
  15. gibbosity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. gibbosity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gibbosity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gibbosity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. gibbosity: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See gibbosities as well.)

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noun:  The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

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