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Definitions of salient
  1. adjective
    having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
    "salient traits"
  2. noun
    (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
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  3. adjective
    represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)

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  4. (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
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Definition that contains salient
  • melodrama an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
  • ypres battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
  • battle of ypres battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
  • salience the state of being salient
  • saliency the state of being salient
  • second battle of ypres battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
  • anxiety disorder a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
  • strikingness the state of being salient
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