salient
adjective
- 1
having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom
a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book
- 2
represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
- 3
(of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
noun
- 1
(military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
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