Salient
adjective
Something very noticeable or important.
The most salient feature of the building is its huge pillars.
Often appears as...
- salient feature
- salient point
adjective
Something that leaps or jumps forward.
In the crest, there is a salient unicorn.
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Technical
adjective
In military, a battleground where the line thrusts forth to enemy's line.
The troops were asked to hold the salient at all costs.
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Technical
adjective
In geometry, an angle pointing outwards or something that juts out.
The salient angle of the irregular polygon caught the student's attention.
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Academic
adjective
Something very noticeable or important.
The most salient feature of the building is its huge pillars.
Often appears as...
- salient feature
- salient point
adjective
Something that leaps or jumps forward.
In the crest, there is a salient unicorn.
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
In military, a battleground where the line thrusts forth to enemy's line.
The troops were asked to hold the salient at all costs.
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
In geometry, an angle pointing outwards or something that juts out.
The salient angle of the irregular polygon caught the student's attention.
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Spotlight Feature
Use 'salient' to highlight what stands out the most in a context, like the key element of a presentation.
Her argument's most salient point was that climate change requires immediate action.
Pro Tip 2/2Critical Importance
'Salient' implies something is not just noticeable, but also significantly important or central to the discussion.
The salient facts of the case were presented first to establish a clear narrative.
Pro Tip 1/2Spotlight Feature
Use 'salient' to highlight what stands out the most in a context, like the key element of a presentation.
Her argument's most salient point was that climate change requires immediate action.
Pro Tip 2/2Critical Importance
'Salient' implies something is not just noticeable, but also significantly important or central to the discussion.
The salient facts of the case were presented first to establish a clear narrative.
Pro Tip 1/2Spotlight Feature
Use 'salient' to highlight what stands out the most in a context, like the key element of a presentation.
Her argument's most salient point was that climate change requires immediate action.
Pro Tip 2/2Critical Importance
'Salient' implies something is not just noticeable, but also significantly important or central to the discussion.
The salient facts of the case were presented first to establish a clear narrative.
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The perks of being a...
But another, more salient realization that comes to light is the triviality of our own self-importance and self-consciousness. To truly understand the extent to which your self-consciousness prohibits you from engaging in opportunities should lead everyone to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
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Timothy Bartik: The...
who move to some other state, but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policy makers, and it's the states that are going to have to act. So there is this key benefit that is relevant
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Katie Mack: Life-altering...
it sort of suggests that maybe space and time are not helping you and not necessary for understanding how these processes work. And there is actually a lot that you can calculate in physics at the sort of, subatomic scale, where space and time are not salient variables.
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The economic case for...
state but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policymakers and as the states are gonna have to act so there is this key benefit that is relevant to state policymakers in terms
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
which I thought was a very salient point not these lines are mobile I'm afraid unfortunately I think there are too many people here let me just try and figure out what's going on here let's go across to Steve while I do that
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How can we help bee...
that in some US cities parking lots cover more than a third of the land making them the single most salient object for of the landscape in our built environments and these parking lots they can help serve as stepping stone
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Penelope Boston: Life on...
And that is a wonderful stepping away in perspective, to try to then think about the way our planet behaves, as a planet, and with the life that's on it. And all of this seems to me to be a salient point in history.
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Tim Harford: Trial,...
The U.S. economy is still the world's greatest economy. How did it become the world's greatest economy? I could give you all kinds of facts and figures about the U.S. economy, but I think the most salient one is
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Kelli Swazey: Life that...
So at funerals, relationships are reconfirmed but also transformed in a ritual drama that highlights the most salient feature about death in this its impact on life and the relationships of the living.
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James Kunstler: How bad...
And it's a tremendous problem for us. The outstanding -- the salient problem about this for us is that these are places that are not worth caring about. We're going to talk about that some more.
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The perks of being a...
But another, more salient realization that comes to light is the triviality of our own self-importance and self-consciousness. To truly understand the extent to which your self-consciousness prohibits you from engaging in opportunities should lead everyone to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
Video examples
Timothy Bartik: The...
who move to some other state, but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policy makers, and it's the states that are going to have to act. So there is this key benefit that is relevant
Video examples
Katie Mack: Life-altering...
it sort of suggests that maybe space and time are not helping you and not necessary for understanding how these processes work. And there is actually a lot that you can calculate in physics at the sort of, subatomic scale, where space and time are not salient variables.
Video examples
The economic case for...
state but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policymakers and as the states are gonna have to act so there is this key benefit that is relevant to state policymakers in terms
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
which I thought was a very salient point not these lines are mobile I'm afraid unfortunately I think there are too many people here let me just try and figure out what's going on here let's go across to Steve while I do that
Video examples
How can we help bee...
that in some US cities parking lots cover more than a third of the land making them the single most salient object for of the landscape in our built environments and these parking lots they can help serve as stepping stone
Video examples
Penelope Boston: Life on...
And that is a wonderful stepping away in perspective, to try to then think about the way our planet behaves, as a planet, and with the life that's on it. And all of this seems to me to be a salient point in history.
Video examples
Tim Harford: Trial,...
The U.S. economy is still the world's greatest economy. How did it become the world's greatest economy? I could give you all kinds of facts and figures about the U.S. economy, but I think the most salient one is
Video examples
Kelli Swazey: Life that...
So at funerals, relationships are reconfirmed but also transformed in a ritual drama that highlights the most salient feature about death in this its impact on life and the relationships of the living.
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James Kunstler: How bad...
And it's a tremendous problem for us. The outstanding -- the salient problem about this for us is that these are places that are not worth caring about. We're going to talk about that some more.
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Molly Ivins
American Journalist
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.
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Sugata Mitra
Indian Educator
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.
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Rene Cassin
French Judge
The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.
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Julie Sweet
American Businesswoman
An employee, even a very junior person, if they can articulately summarize a meeting, if they can put together a presentation and even emails that are really salient and to the point, they are so valued.
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Iggy Pop
American Musician
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.
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Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
For moral judgment, I think the most interesting trends in neuroscience are the ways in which judgments vary as a function of how emotionally salient the situation is.
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Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.
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James Buchan
British Novelist
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
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Adam Mansbach
American Author
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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Molly Ivins
American Journalist
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.
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Sugata Mitra
Indian Educator
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.
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Rene Cassin
French Judge
The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.
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Julie Sweet
American Businesswoman
An employee, even a very junior person, if they can articulately summarize a meeting, if they can put together a presentation and even emails that are really salient and to the point, they are so valued.
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Iggy Pop
American Musician
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.
Quote examples
Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
For moral judgment, I think the most interesting trends in neuroscience are the ways in which judgments vary as a function of how emotionally salient the situation is.
Quote examples
Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.
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James Buchan
British Novelist
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
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Adam Mansbach
American Author
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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