salient
adjective
prominent or conspicuous.
salients
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pluralof salient.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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South Viet Nam, Malaysia and Thailand represent salients on the edge of China's sphere of influence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like a general staff's war maps, the charts were studded with varicolored pins, indicating danger points, quiet sectors or advancing salients in the industrial front.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the defense machine guns should be mounted in salients and at points where cross fire can be obtained.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss
