gibbous

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɪbəs/

Adjective

gibbous

1. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22

     In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]

2. (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
3. Humpbacked.
   • 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8

     A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,

     Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;

Translations

• French: gibbeux, gibbeuse
• Russian: выпуклый
• Spanish: giboso

Translations

• French: gibbeux, gibbeuse
• Russian: освещённый более, чем на половина
• Spanish: giboso

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