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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