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Salience
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- We are all still wearing our badges out of reflex, but the credentials inside shiny pouches have lost salience.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| salient (ˈseɪlɪənt) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | prominent, conspicuous, or striking: a salient feature |
| 2. | Compare re-entrant (esp in fortifications) projecting outwards at an angle of less than 180° |
| 3. | geometry Compare re-entrant (of an angle) pointing outwards from a polygon and hence less than 180° |
| 4. | (esp of animals) leaping |
| —n | |
| 5. | military a projection of the forward line into enemy-held territory |
| 6. | a salient angle |
| [C16: from Latin salīre to leap] | |
| 'salience | |
| —n | |
| 'saliency | |
| —n | |
| 'saliently | |
| —adv | |
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