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Definition of Salient

Salient
Salient Sa"li*ent, a. [L. saliens, -entis, p. pr. of salire to leap; cf. F. saillant. See Sally, n. & v. i..] 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. ``Frogs and salient animals.' --Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out or up; springing; projecting. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. --Burke. 3. Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable. He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind. --Bancroft. 4. (Math. & Fort.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to re["e]ntering. See Illust. of Bastion.
Salient
Salient Sa"li*ent, a. (Fort.) A salient angle or part; a projection.

Meaning of Salient from wikipedia

- Look up salient in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salient may refer to: Salient (military), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory...
- A salient, panhandle, or bootheel is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state. While similar...
- The Battle of Kursk, also called the Battle of the Kursk Salient, was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of **** Germany and...
- A salient, also known as a bulge, is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. The salient is surrounded by the enemy on multiple sides...
- In computer vision, a saliency map is an image that highlights either the region on which people's eyes focus first or the most relevant regions for machine...
- Salient is the w****ly students' magazine of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' ****ociation (VUWSA) at Victoria University of Wellington,...
- Salience (also called saliency, from Latin saliō meaning “leap, spring”) is the property by which some thing stands out. Salient events are an attentional...
- The Wadi Halfa Salient, named after Wadi Halfa, a nearby Sudanese city 22 kilometers south of the border, is a salient of the international border between...
- The Leipzig Salient was the British term for a German defensive position built in 1915 on the Somme in France, during the First World War, opposite the...
- GovCIO, previously Salient CRGT, Inc, is an American private firm that provides health analytics, cloud services, Agile software development, mobility...