gibbous

UK /ˈɡɪbəs/ US /ˈɡɪbəs/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Curved or bulged outward.

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

2

Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.

The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.

On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.

3

Humpbacked.

A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;

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