salient

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salient /ˈseɪlɪənt/

▶adjective

• 1 most noticeable or important.

• 2 (of an angle) pointing outwards. The opposite of re-entrant.

• 3 [postpos.] Heraldry (of an animal) standing on its hind legs with the forepaws raised, as if leaping.

▶noun

• 1 a piece of land or section of fortification that juts out to form an angle.

• 2 an outward bulge in a military line.

– derivatives
salience noun,
saliency noun,
saliently adverb.

– origin C16 from L. salient-, salire ‘to leap’.