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Meaning of salient
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
salient
adj 1: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an
outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by
anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their
own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature
of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in
prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the
statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance
between parent and child" [syn: {outstanding},
{prominent}, {salient}, {spectacular}, {striking}]
2: (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180
degrees [ant: {re-entrant}, {reentrant}]
3: represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
n 1: (military) the part of the line of battle that projects
closest to the enemy
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