saliency
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saliency
Example Sentences
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Time was, America’s aspiration was for preoccupations with racial, sexual and ethnic differences to lose political saliency, and to recede as relations between the sexes and races became more relaxed.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022
The "saliency algorithm" decided how images would be cropped in Twitter previews, before being clicked on to open at full size.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2021
This turns on the bird units, which further drive the algorithm to enhance the saliency of birds in the image, and so on.
From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2015
"The message of the value of taxpayers' money, whether it's applied to federal, provincial or municipal government, is a message that has great saliency," said John Wright, pollster at Ipsos-Reid.
From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2013
In rendering Browning’s “One Way of Love,” the word “rose” in the first line is given saliency.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
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