Dictionary definition · salient
noun
- (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
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"
- (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
- represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).