Gibbous
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɡɪbəs/
- Rhymes: -ɪbəs
Origin
From Middle English, from Latin gibbus ("humped, hunched"), probably cognate with cubÅ ("bend oneself, lie down"), Italian gobba ("humpback"), Greek κÏφος (kyphos, "humpback, bent"), κÏβος (kybos, "cube, vertebra").
Full definition of gibbous
Adjective
gibbous
- Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge,In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready ...
- (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
- Humpbacked.
- 1697, Dryden, Aeneid,A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;