extrusion

Other forms of extrusion

plural

extrusions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about extrusion

What does extrusion mean?

extrusion means "something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in extrusion?

extrusion has 3 syllables: ex-tru-sion. The stress falls on "tru". In IPA it is /ɪkˈstɹuʒən/.

What is another word for extrusion?

Close synonyms include bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extrusion a common word?

extrusion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.