salient

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.

   “The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.”

2. sıfat Prominent; conspicuous.

   “Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.”

3. sıfat Depicted in a leaping posture.

   “a lion salient”

4. sıfat Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.

   “a salient angle”

5. sıfat Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.

   “frogs and salient animals”

6. sıfat Shooting or springing out; projecting.

   “He had in himſelf a ſalient, living ſpring of generous and manly action.”

7. sıfat Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
8. isim An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.

   “On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.”

9. isim A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.
10. isim An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.