Salient

Adjective

 * 1) Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
 * The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
 * 1) Prominent.
 * 2)  Depicted in a leaping posture.
 * 3)  Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.

Quotations

 * 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 2, chapter 5:
 * With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy."
 * 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds Book2, chapter 2:
 * 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.
 * 1936, H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth:
 * 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.

Antonyms

 * obscure, trivial

Derived terms

 * salient point

Related terms

 * salience
 * saliency

Noun

 * 1)  an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense

Derived terms

 * salient pole

Thesaurus
airspace, area, arrant, arresting, bas-relief, bellying, belt, blatant, bold, boldness, bulging, celebrated, chief, confines, conspicuous, continental shelf, corridor, country, department, distinctive, distinguished, distinguishing, district, division, embossment, eminence, eminent, emissile, environs, esteemed, estimable, exceptional, excrescence, excrescency, excrescent, excrescential, extraordinary, extruding, extrusion, flagrant, gibbosity, gibbousness, glaring, ground, hanging out, heartland, high relief, hinterland, important, impressive, in relief, in the foreground, intrusive, jutting, land, low relief, marked, memorable, milieu, moving, neighborhood, noble, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious, of mark, offshore rights, ostensible, outstanding, part, parts, pertinent, place, precincts, premises, prestigious, primary, principal, prognathous, projecting, projection, prominence, prominent, pronounced, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusion, protrusive, protuberance, protuberancy, protuberant, protuberating, purlieus, quarter, rare, region, relief, remarkable, rememberable, reputable, salience, section, signal, significant, soil, space, special, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, telling, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, tuberosity, tuberousness, twelve-mile limit, unforgettable, unique, vicinage, vicinity, weighty, zone

Etymology
The heraldic sense "leaping" and the sense "projecting outward" are from saliens, from salio:. The senses "prominent" and "pertinent" are relatively recently from the phrase "salient point", which is from the punctum saliens, a translation of Aristotle's term for the embryonal heart visible in (opened) eggs, which he thought seemed to move already. Compare the German calque der springende Punkt.

Adjective

 * Finnish: ,
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 * Romanian: proeminent


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Noun

 * French: ,


 * Ido: saliero

Anagrams

 * elastin, entails, Latines, saltine, staniel