Definition of "bulge" []

• A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling. (noun)
• Nautical A bilge. (noun)
• A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity: The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment. (noun)
• An advantage. (noun)
• To cause to curve outward. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface."
• "Diet this, diet that and the merry-go-round of the bulge is nothing less or more than a way of life ridden with guilt, should I even think of eating a piece of candy."
• "But they underscore that in a country where we're living longer and where the boomer bulge is leaving a deep wake behind it, it is about to have an enormous impact on our health-care system and will challenge our long-term care plans."