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Salient

a.
  1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
  2. Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
  3. Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
  4. (Math. & Fort.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion.
  5. (Her.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
    6. Salient angle .
    See Salient, a., 4.
    Salient polygon (Geom.),
    a polygon all of whose angles are salient.
    Salient polyhedron (Geom.),
    a polyhedron all of whose solid angles are salient.

a.
  1. A salient angle or part; a projection.