salient

salient
saliently, adv.
/say"lee euhnt, sayl"yeuhnt/, adj.
1. prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
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.
n.
5. a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
6. Physical Geog. a landform that extends out beyond its surroundings, as a spur projecting from the side of a mountain. Cf. reentrant (def. 4).
[1555-65; < L salient- (s. of saliens, prp. of salire to spring, jump), equiv. to sali- verb s. + -ent- -ENT]
Syn. 1. important; striking, remarkable.
Ant. 1. inconspicuous, unimportant.

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