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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, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No Man's Land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... success. They not only broke the line, but even took possession of Coehorn's fort, in which however they found it impossible to effect a lodgement. On the second day of August, lord Cutts, with four hundred English and Dutch grenadiers, attacked the salient angle of a demi-bastion, and lodged himself on the second counterscarp. The breaches being now practicable, and preparations made for a general assault, count Guiscard the governor capitulated for the town ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... that looks back over many years of adventurous life. I can give only the more salient points of the picture. The petite detail is forgotten, although at that time the minutest objects were things new and strange to my eye, and each of them for a while fixed my attention. I afterwards grew familiar with them; ...

— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid

... personal characteristics differed so widely. Each was superior to the other in certain traits, and in our public annals thus far each stands unequaled in his sphere. Their points of contrast were salient and numerous. Mr. Clay was born in Virginia. Mr. Webster was born in New England. Mr. Clay was a devoted follower of Jefferson. Mr. Webster was bred in the school of Hamilton. Mr. Clay was an earnest advocate of the second war with Great Britain. Mr. Webster was its steady opponent. Mr. Clay supported ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... addition to the letters there is an extensive diary and also numerous conversation books. All these writings are valuable, not only for themselves, but because they confirm in an unmistakable way certain of the salient characteristics of his musical compositions. With Beethoven we find in instrumental music, practically for the first time, a prevailing note of sublimity. He must have been a religious man in the truest sense of the term, with the capacity to realize the mystery ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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