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noun

extrusion

something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

In a sentence

Six example sentences with extrusion, each labelled with its topic.

  • A slim glass extrusion carries the reading room out over the plaza, so visitors sit suspended above the street.

    Architecture

  • The volcanic extrusion rose forty meters above the flat lava field, a knuckle of hardened rock visible for miles.

    Science

  • The sculptor left one rough extrusion on the smooth marble torso, a single knot of stone breaking the silhouette.

    Art

  • The scan showed a disc extrusion pressing on the nerve root, which explained the numbness running down her calf.

    Medicine

  • A small extrusion on the phone's back houses the camera lenses, and every case maker has to cut around it.

    Technology

  • Boats give the black extrusion at the harbor mouth a wide berth, a knuckle of old lava that surfaces at low tide.

    Travel

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