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salient

/sey-lee-uhnt, seyl-yuhnt/US // ˈseɪ li ənt, ˈseɪl yənt //UK // (ˈseɪlɪənt) //

突出的,突出,显著的,突出的是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
    • : projecting or pointing outward: a salient angle.
    • : leaping or jumping: a salient animal.
    • : Heraldry. represented as leaping: a lion salient.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line.
    • : Physical Geography. a landform that extends out beyond its surroundings, as a spur projecting from the side of a mountain.Compare reentrant.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.noticeable, important

Examples

  • Perhaps the most salient point regarding Davis is that he could stay healthy and atop the Falcons’ depth chart and still put his fantasy managers at a deficit.

  • Those two ingredients—foam and plate—are also the salient features of the Vaporfly and comparable marathon shoes, but there are some differences.

  • Dopamine doesn’t just make us feel good, it also serves the purpose of telling our brain what is “salient.”

  • As our nation continues to open, we can hope that tempers will cool, tensions will ease, and a person’s positions on the virus will become less salient to their partisan identity.

  • The software was designed to estimate which part of a photo would be considered most “salient” or important to see first and was trained with human eye-tracking data, Twitter said.

  • And, with an estimated 70 million gay people in China, there has never been a more salient time to turn the corner.

  • He is also known as El H, but of all his nicknames El Elegante is the most salient.

  • One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders.

  • But in the aggregate, immigration reform is not a salient issue for white evangelicals.

  • When I sit down someday to write my memoirs and try to characterize this era, I will note three salient political features.

  • She is skilful in seizing salient characteristics, and her chief aim is to preserve the individuality of her sitters and models.

  • His head leaned towards her with its salient thrust, its poise of impetus and forward flight.

  • It may not be unwise to review the grounds that we have been going over, and to glance at the salient points.

  • But General Lee abandoned the salient after dark, and put his whole force in the base line.

  • In this salient, now known as the “Bloody Angle,” occurred one of the most terrible hand-to-hand conflicts of modern warfare.