Meaning gibbous
What does gibbous mean? Here you find 5 meanings of the word gibbous. You can also add a definition of gibbous yourself
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gibbousc. 1400, "bulging, convex," from Late Latin gibbus "hunchbacked," from Latin gibbus "a hump, a hunch," as an adjective, "bulging," from Proto-Italic *gifri- &qu [..]
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gibbousWhen the Moon or other body appears more than half, but not fully, illuminated (from gibbus, Latin for “hump”).
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gibbous(adj) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column(adj) (used of the moon) more than half full
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gibbousApplied to Moon's phase after her second quarter and when her disc is more than a semi-circle but less than a
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gibbousThe phase of the moon between first quarter and last quarter, when the moon appears more than half illuminated.
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