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| | salient - Definitions from Dictionary.com |
 | | (of a beast) represented as leaping: a lion salient. |
 | | a salient angle or part, as the central outward-projecting angle of a bastion or an outward projection in a battle line. |
 | | The meaning "pointing outward" (preserved in military usage) is from 1687; that of "prominent, striking" first recorded 1840, from salient point (1672), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates L. punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle's writings. |
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