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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Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients.
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South Viet Nam, Malaysia and Thailand represent salients on the edge of China's sphere of influence.
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Mostly, the action was confined to border thrusts by both sides to straighten out salients that are difficult to defend.
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Both of these latter differ from his 1797 trace in that the re-entering angle is reinforced by a tenaille whose faces are parallel to the main faces and reach almost to the salients.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
