salient
IPA: sˈeɪɫiʌnt
noun
- (military) An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9:
- 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193:
- (geography) An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
adjective
- Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- Prominent; conspicuous.
- (heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
- (often military) Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
- (obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
- (obsolete) Shooting or springing out; projecting.
- (geometry) Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
Advertisement
Examples of "salient" in Sentences
- The table is more salient than the text.
- I seem to have buried the salient points.
- Is anyone keen to surmise the salient points
- The article already summarizes the salient beliefs.
- The scan is legible for the salient parts of the article.
- It described the salient points of the Battle of Shanghai.
- The taste is mild, and the alcoholic tang is less salient.
- It judiciously covers all the salient features of the article.
- The controversy is the most salient issue on the topic of BCS.
- The credentials of the leaders of a group are salient to the reader.