noun
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An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
adjective
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Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
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The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
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Prominent; conspicuous.
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(usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
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a lion salient
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Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
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a salient angle
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Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
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Shooting or springing out; projecting.
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Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
Examples of salient in a Sentence
Only salient points can be indicated.
It may be well to point out here the salient features in Bonaparte's conduct towards the states of northern Italy.
The salient event of Bela's reign was the terrible Tatar invasion which reduced three-quarters of Hungary to ashes.
Einstein's work is so important and has proved fertile in so many various branches of physics that it is not possible to do more than enumerate a few of the most salient papers.
Equality before the law, absolute religious toleration and local autonomy, were its salient features.
It was now seen as being more politically salient than when launched a year ago.
A brief comparison with these will indicate its salient features.
The data show that the difference in the two patterns is perceptually salient.
Nick also makes some very salient points in his newly revised Preface.
Show the ability to put the salient points across in a few words.
See Driver ad loc. The chief and most salient characteristic of the worship of the high places was geniality.
A period of infinite confusion and extreme misery now ensued, of which only the salient points can here be noted.
The blurring of these boundaries is particularly salient in many African contexts.
It will more surely suit my son" - show that his mind seized the salient facts of the situation; but his instincts struggled against them.
The salient feature of Cambodian geography is the large lake Tonle-Sao, in a depression 68 m.
Next day, by a skilfully conducted attack following a liberal use of gas shells, he pinched up the Meletta-Badenecche salient, occupying both Tondarecar and Badenecche and taking Monte Fior and Castelgomberto in the rear.
Support and feedback could be important in this process, and especially salient for on school placement.
Here we provide some useful tips for doing just that, examining the salient points of each Article in the Act.
I must confine myself here to underscoring the two salient points of the debates which were very vehement at times.
Adept as she was in the most exquisite delicacy of dissimulation, the most salient note of her original disposition was daring rather than subtlety.
We now describe some of the salient features of the example.
The most salient phonetic characteristics will be listed in table 1 below.
Still, nothing changes the salient facts on the ground.
However a brief description of the salient aspects is relevant to the present discussion.
Halfmoon an outwork, crescent shaped or with two faces forming a salient angle.
Make succinct, salient points, avoiding jargon and unnecessarily complex information.
It is unnecessary in this place to recapitulate the many results which had accumulated by the end of the 18th century, or to discuss the labours and theories of individual workers since these receive attention under biographical headings; in this article only the salient features in the history of our science can be treated.
Even in a brief summary of the war one salient fact is noticeable, that all Wellington's reverses were in connexion with his sieges, for which his means were never adequate.
Constancy of purpose was the salient feature of Thomas's military character.
Between the Val Lagarina and the Vallarsa and along the Val Terragnolo the Italian lines formed a dangerously exposed salient, running down from the high slopes and completely dominated by the Austrian guns on Monte Biaena, Monte Ghello, Monte Finonchio and the Folgaria plateau.
But the Austrians were now getting ready to go - out of the salient and back to a strong line which they had already selected.
The counter-offensive, which was to be directed against the two sides of the Austrian salient, was never fully developed, for it was anticipated by the Austrians, who withdrew skilfully and in good order.
Pecori-Giraldi retired from Asiago and Gallio, and based his right on the fortified lines of the Meletta group. This formed a salient, for the line marked out for the IV.
Conrad and Krauss continued their attempts to break through on the mountain front, but Krauss confined his efforts to the positions west of Monte Grappa and the worrying Solarolo salient.
But more than i r,000 prisoners were taken as a result of the gas bombardment and the breaking of the line at the base of the salient.
The salient was quickly wiped out, several thousand prisoners were taken, and both Col del Rosso and Monte Melago were captured.
He opened his attack on Dec. z i by a push on each wing of his front, from the Brenta valley and Monte Pertica against Col della Berretta, and against both sides of the Solarolo salient.
As an introduction to the discussion of the natural regions into which England is divided (Section II.), and for the sake of comparison of altitudes, size of rivers and similar details, the salient geographical features may be briefly summarized.
In less highly integrated organisms, such as "cold-blooded" vertebrates, the point of death is less conspicuous, and when we carry our observations further down the scale of animal life, there ceases to be any salient phase in the slow transition from life to death.
These are the few salient points (other, of course, than the epochs of his more important discoveries and inventions presently to be considered) in the uneventful life of this great man.
His eclecticism, his ontology and his philosophy of history were declared in principle and in most of their salient details in the Fragmens philosophiques (Paris, 1826).
Here again it has been possible to notice only the salient points or landmarks, leaving all detail to special articles as above.
But Medieval before giving a brief account of the ethical part of his moral system, it will be well to notice the salient points in philo- the long and active discussion that led up to it.
At the same time there are salient points which mark the outline of his thought.
An invasion of Jagatais and the irruption of Timur are salient points in the history of Seistan prior to the Sefavid conquest (1508).
We shall proceed in the first instance to examine the most salient features of the normal Castilian, spoken in the provinces more or less closely corresponding to the old limits of Old and New Castile, so as to be able afterwards to note the peculiarities of what, for want of a better expression, we must call the Castiian dialects.
In dealing with the practical side of apiculture it will not be necessary to do more than mention the salient points to be considered by those desirous of acquiring more complete knowledge of the subject.
A few salient facts may be added concerning the astrologers and their predictions, remarkable either for their fulfilment or for the ruin and confusion they brought upon their authors.
Here Gedymin's triumphal progress was irresistible; but the various stages of it are impossible to follow, the sources of its history being few and conflicting, and the date of every salient event exceedingly doubtful.
The salient episode of his career was an attempt to establish a republic at Hakodate.