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What (who) is salient - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Salient (disambiguation); Salients
salient
The salient points or facts of a situation are the most important ones. (FORMAL)
He read the salient facts quickly...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
salient
['se?l??nt]
¦ adjective
1. most noticeable or important.
2. (of an angle) pointing outwards. The opposite of re-entrant.
3. [postposition] Heraldry (of an animal) standing on its hind legs with the forepaws raised, as if leaping.
¦ noun
1. a piece of land or section of fortification that juts out to form an angle.
2. an outward bulge in a military line.
Derivatives
salience noun
saliency noun
saliently adverb
Origin
C16 from L. salient-, salire 'to leap'.
Salient
·adj A salient angle or part; a projection.
II. Salient ·vi Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
III. Salient ·vi Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
IV. Salient ·vi Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
V. Salient ·vi Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
VI. Salient ·vi Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle;
- opposed to reentering. ·see ·Illust. of Bastion.
Wikipedia
Salient
Salient may refer to:
- Salient (military), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory
- Salient (geography), an elongated protrusion of a territory
- Salient (heraldry), an adjective describing a heraldic beast in a leaping attitude
- Salient pole, a projecting electromagnetic pole of a field coil
- SALIENT, SALt Irradiation ExperimeNT, a thorium molten salt reactor
- Salient (magazine), Victoria University of Wellington student publication
- Salient Software, a utility software company between 1990 and 1992, taken over by Fifth Generation Systems, meanwhile Symantec / Norton
- Salient Partners, an asset management firm
- Salient CRGT, a US government IT services firm based in Fairfax, Virginia
Examples of use of salient
1. Let‘s just run through a few salient points here.
2. U.S.–Iran talks should focus on the salient issues.
3. Celebrities were brought in to hammer the salient points home.
4. And yet those admirers missed some salient truths.
5. Jamshed Farshoori presented salient features of Pakistan Plan of Action.