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salient

[ sey-lee-uhnt, seyl-yuhnt ]

adjective

  1. prominent or conspicuous:

    salient traits.

    Synonyms: remarkable, striking, important

    Antonyms: unimportant, inconspicuous

  2. projecting or pointing outward:

    a salient angle.

  3. leaping or jumping:

    a salient animal.

  4. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented as leaping:

    a lion salient.



noun

  1. a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
  2. Physical Geography. a landform that extends out beyond its surroundings, as a spur projecting from the side of a mountain. Compare reentrant ( def 4 ).

salient

/ ˈseɪlɪənt /

adjective

  1. prominent, conspicuous, or striking

    a salient feature

  2. (esp in fortifications) projecting outwards at an angle of less than 180° Compare re-entrant
  3. geometry (of an angle) pointing outwards from a polygon and hence less than 180° Compare re-entrant
  4. (esp of animals) leaping


noun

  1. military a projection of the forward line into enemy-held territory
  2. a salient angle

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Derived Forms

  • ˈsalience, noun
  • ˈsaliently, adverb

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Other Words From

  • sali·ent·ly adverb
  • un·sali·ent adjective
  • un·sali·ent·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of salient1

First recorded in 1555–65; from Latin salient-, stem of saliēns “jumping,” present participle of salīre “to spring, jump”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of salient1

C16: from Latin salīre to leap

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Example Sentences

Perhaps the most salient point regarding Davis is that he could stay healthy and atop the Falcons’ depth chart and still put his fantasy managers at a deficit.

Those two ingredients—foam and plate—are also the salient features of the Vaporfly and comparable marathon shoes, but there are some differences.

Dopamine doesn’t just make us feel good, it also serves the purpose of telling our brain what is “salient.”

As our nation continues to open, we can hope that tempers will cool, tensions will ease, and a person’s positions on the virus will become less salient to their partisan identity.

From Time

The software was designed to estimate which part of a photo would be considered most “salient” or important to see first and was trained with human eye-tracking data, Twitter said.

And, with an estimated 70 million gay people in China, there has never been a more salient time to turn the corner.

He is also known as El H, but of all his nicknames El Elegante is the most salient.

One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders.

But in the aggregate, immigration reform is not a salient issue for white evangelicals.

When I sit down someday to write my memoirs and try to characterize this era, I will note three salient political features.

She is skilful in seizing salient characteristics, and her chief aim is to preserve the individuality of her sitters and models.

His head leaned towards her with its salient thrust, its poise of impetus and forward flight.

It may not be unwise to review the grounds that we have been going over, and to glance at the salient points.

But General Lee abandoned the salient after dark, and put his whole force in the base line.

In this salient, now known as the “Bloody Angle,” occurred one of the most terrible hand-to-hand conflicts of modern warfare.

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