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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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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