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Definition of Salients

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 Salients from wikipedia

- Look up salient in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salient may refer to: Salient (military), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory...
- the salient through its tip can threaten the rear areas of the opposing forces outside it, leaving them open to an attack from behind. Salients can be...
- Missouri Bootheel and New Mexico Bootheel areas. The term salient is derived from military salients. The term "panhandle" derives from the analogous part...
- Hughes names these problematic sub-systems “reverse salients”. A reverse salient is the inverse of a salient that depicts the forward protrusion along an object's...
- computer vision, a saliency map is an image that highlights the region on which people's eyes focus first. The goal of a saliency map is to reflect the...
- Salient is the w****ly students' magazine of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' ****ociation (VUWSA) at Victoria University of Wellington,...
- 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...
- The Ypres Salient, around Ypres, in Belgium, was the scene of several battles and a major part of the Western Front during World War I. Ypres lies at...
- GovCIO, previously Salient CRGT, Inc, is an American private firm that provides health analytics, cloud services, Agile software development, mobility...
- The Battle of the Nijmegen salient or the Defence of the Nijmegen bridgehead was a series of engagements that took place in the Netherlands during World...