salient
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: The heraldic sense “leaping” and the sense “projecting outward” are borrowed from Latin salientem, the accusative form of saliēns (“springing, leaping”), present participle of saliō (“leap, spring”, verb). The senses “prominent” and “pertinent” are relatively recent, and derive from the phrase salient point, which is a calque of the Latin punctum saliēns, a translation of Aristotle's term for the embryonal heart visible in (opened) eggs, which he thought seemed to move already. Compare also the German calque der springende Punkt.
Inflected forms:
form: more salient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most salient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: salients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
pos: adj
examples: The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy."
The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.
gloss: Prominent; conspicuous.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.
Professionally published dictionaries do not seem to have extended coverage beyond the most frequent and salient items.
Russian forces likely accumulated a large amount of equipment for such mechanized assaults, but significant medium- to long-term constraints on Russian armored vehicle stocks will become more salient as losses grow and may force the Russian military command to rethink the benefit of continuing such intensified mechanized activity in Ukraine.
gloss: Depicted in a leaping posture.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: a lion salient
gloss: Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: a salient angle
gloss: Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: frogs and salient animals
gloss: Shooting or springing out; projecting.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: He had in himſelf a ſalient, living ſpring of generous and manly action.
gloss: Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
pos: adj
gloss: An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
pos: noun
examples: On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Orogenic arcs are made up by more advanced segments (salients) separated by less advanced zones (recesses) (Miser, 1932). Within salients, the critical taper is lower, the distance among thrust ramps is larger, and there may be more ramps departing from the basal décollement layer with respect to the recess areas.
Related words: salience
saliency
sally
Derived words: countersalient
hypersalient
isosalient
nonsalient
saliently
salient point
thermosalient
unsalient
salient pole
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