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Definition of Gibbousness

Gibbousness
Gibbous Gib"bous, a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.] 1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. --Wiseman. 2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. -- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n.

Meaning of Gibbousness from wikipedia

- last quarter; the four minor phases are waxing crescent, waxing gibbous, waning gibbous, and waning crescent. A lunar month is the time between successive...
- Waxing Gibbous is the fifth studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Malcolm Middleton, released on 1 June 2009 on Full Time Hobby. Middleton has stated...
- Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Romanian developer Stuck In Attic for Windows, macOS, Linux...
- For example, a last quarter rises at midnight and sets at noon. A waning gibbous is best seen from late night to early morning. The Moon rises 30 to 70...
- The Gibbous Rocks are a group of rocks located 7 km (4 nmi) north-west of Cape Belsham, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica....
- The gibbous shiner (Cyprinella garmani) is a species of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Mexico. It resides in the states of Durango, Zacatecas...
- Composite of six photos of the ISS transiting the gibbous Moon...
- (Central Orion-Saiph), Obora Dikka (Sirius), Birra (full moon), Cikawa (gibbous moon), Sadasaa (quarter moon), Abrasa (large crescent), Ammaji (medium...
- D-shaped. When the moon is nearly full, it is called a gibbous moon. The crescent and gibbous moons each last approximately a w****. Each phase is also...
- where it could exhibit only gibbous and full phases. After Galileo's telescopic observations of the crescent, gibbous and full phases of Venus, the...