All convexity synonyms
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- flap β to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
- wart β a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by a papomavirus.
- lump β a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- nodule β a small node, knot, or knob.
- projection β a projecting or protruding part. Synonyms: overhang, protrusion, jut.
- bump β If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
- swelling β the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
- promontory β a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- growth β the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
- dilation β the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
- bunch β A bunch of people is a group of people who share one or more characteristics or who are doing something together.
- protrusion β the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.
- salient β prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- hump β a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- sac β Strategic Air Command.
- blob β A blob of thick or sticky liquid is a small, often round, amount of it.
- distention β the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- protuberance β the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- jut β to extend beyond the main body or line; project; protrude (often followed by out): The narrow strip of land juts out into the bay.
- outgrowth β a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
- prominence β Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- tumor β a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
- superfluity β the state of being superfluous.
- appendage β An appendage is something that is joined to or connected with something larger or more important.
- gibbosity β the state of being gibbous.
- tuberosity β a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
- salience β the state or condition of being salient.
- bunching β a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- sagging β to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
- tumefaction β an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- outthrust β thrust or extended outward: a friendly, outthrust hand.
- intumescence β a swelling up, as with congestion.
- knob β a projecting part, usually rounded, forming the handle of a door, drawer, or the like.
- ridge β a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- hunch β to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
- bulge β If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
- mound β a globe topped with a cross that symbolizes power and constitutes part of the regalia of an English sovereign.
- dune β a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans.
- swell β to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- hill β the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
- kyphosis β an abnormal, convex curvature of the spine, with a resultant bulge at the upper back.
- hummock β Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- knap β a crest or summit of a small hill.
- tumescence β swelling; slightly tumid.
- node β a knot, protuberance, or knob.
- wattle β Often, wattles. a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc.
- fold β to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- portion β a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- ear β the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
- lap β the act of lapping liquid.