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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.

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

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