[syn: extrusion, expulsion]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Extrusion \Ex*tru"sion\, n.
The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out;
expulsion.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
extrusion
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
from its surroundings; "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" [syn:
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity,
gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance,
protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
2: squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion
of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of
pus from the pimple" [syn: extrusion, expulsion]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "extrusion":
bas-relief, bellying, boldness, booting out, bulging,
defenestration, detrusion, discharge, effusion, egestion,
ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emanation,
embossment, emergence, emersion, eminence, emission, excrescence,
excrescency, excretion, expulsion, extravasation, exudation, flow,
flux, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, issuance, issue,
jettison, kicking downstairs, low relief, obtrusion, ouster,
ousting, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance,
protuberancy, rejection, relief, removal, salience, salient,
secretion, surfacing, the boot, the bounce, throwing out,
transudation, tuberosity, tuberousness, vent