salient
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1. salient - Noun
2. salient - Adjective
3. salient - Verb
4. salient - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
A salient angle or part; a projection.
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No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?
Towns should be laid out not as an exact square nor with salient angles, but in circular form, to give a view of the enemy from many points. Defense is difficult where there are salient angles because the angle protects the enemy rather than the inhabitants.
The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events (that is, events that change the nature of the process, or significantly affect the future of the process) expands of contracts along with the amount of chaos.
The most salient features of all these enterprises are discipline and diversity.
To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical.