noun
- Military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy. (
adjective
- Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention.
- usage: "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child"
- synonyms: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking
- Of angles. ( pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees)
- Represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward. ).
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