salient
Noun
- (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
- Less specific
- projection
- Part of
- line of battle
- Topic Members
- military
- armed forces
- armed services
- military machine
- war machine
- Less specific
Adjective
- 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”; “salient traits”; “a spectacular rise in prices”; “a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center”; “a striking resemblance between parent and child”
- Synonyms
- outstanding
- prominent
- spectacular
- striking
- Similar to
- conspicuous
- Related
- salience
- saliency
- strikingness
- spectacle
- salience
- saliency
- strikingness
- salience
- saliency
- strikingness
- Synonyms
- (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
- Antonyms
- re-entrant
- reentrant
- Antonyms
- represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
- Similar to
- inclined
- Topic Members
- heraldry
- Similar to
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