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adjective

Salient adj.

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals."

Shooting out or up; springing; projecting. "He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action."

Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable. "He (Grenville) had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind."

(Math. & Fort.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; opposed to reentering.

(Her.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.

Salient angle. See Salient, a., 4.

Salient polygon (Geom.), a polygon all of whose angles are salient.

Salient polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron all of whose solid angles are salient.

Salient adj. (Fort.) A salient angle or part; a projection.

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Etymology of 'Salient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Salient" Quotes from Famous Books

... there are as good fish in foreign seas as ever there were in the English Channel. The cosmopolitanism of a human brotherhood, whether it hails from the Sandwich Islands, from France, from Finland, or from Hungary; which recognizes as a salient truth, big with vital issues, that, after all is said and done, it is not the soil which matters, but the man whose feet are upon it now, at this present day, though by birth he may own natal allegiance ...

— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

... "contoured"—that is to say, it was covered all over with wavy lines, each of which represented a definite height above sea-level. With such a map before me it was of course the easiest matter imaginable to determine the position of all the most salient points of the landscape, of which there were several, and—assuming the map to be correctly drawn—to measure the distances of these from ...

— Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun - A Story of the Russo-Japanese War • Harry Collingwood

... wheedle the doctor, and waited on him hand and foot. Though she talked war constantly to everyone else she never mentioned it to him or before him, but she watched him like a cat watching a mouse; and when the German retreat from the Bapaume salient began and continued, Susan's exultation was linked up with something deeper than anything she expressed. Surely the end was in sight—would come now ...

— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... round and round the Eighth Judicial Circuit, he traveled in that humble style. What thoughts he brooded on in his lonely drives, he seldom told. During this period the cloud over his inner life is especially dense. The outer life, in a multitude of reminiscences, is well known. One of its salient details was the large proportion of ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... of religious conversion have been studied in a more scientific spirit.[143] Statistics have been compiled and analysed, the frames of mind attendant on conversion arranged and studied, with the result that the salient features are to be discerned by all who approach the study of the subject with a little detachment of mind. One outstanding feature of this more scientific enquiry into the nature of conversion has been to demonstrate that it is almost exclusively ...

— Religion & Sex - Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development • Chapman Cohen

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