extrusion Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
    protrusion; bulge; gibbousness; hump; prominence; bump; swelling; excrescence; jut; gibbosity; protuberance.
    • the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
    • the hump of a camel
    • he stood on the rocky prominence
    • the occipital protuberance was well developed
    • the bony excrescence between its horns
  2. noun squeezing out by applying pressure
    expulsion.
    • an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube
    • the expulsion of pus from the pimple

WordNet


Ex*tru"sion noun
Definitions
  1. The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.

Webster 1913