gibbous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Curved or bulged outward.

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

2. sıfat 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.”

3. sıfat Humpbacked.

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