Sekirov Dictionary

salient

/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/

adjective 7
noun 3
forms 3

adjective7

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Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
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Prominent; conspicuous.
- Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features. — 1936
Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
Depicted in a leaping posture.
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(no longer used) Shooting or springing out; projecting.
- He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. — 1796
(no longer used) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.

noun3

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An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront. — 1919
A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.
An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.

forms

salients · more salient · most salient

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