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salience
  1. The condition of being salient.
  2. A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
  3. (linguistics) Relative importance based on context.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “These cues varied systematically in their perceptual salience relative to the primary task in which it was embedded.”
      “It has a particular salience since he was sometimes suspected of anti-Semitism.”
      “He constructs a fictional world in which the class struggle has special salience.”
salient
  1. (military) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense
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saliency
  1. the quality of being salient; salience
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The bottom-up saliency map is finally determined by fusing the conspicuity maps.”
      “The linkage between nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament has acquired greater saliency.”
      “The Assessment was based on three main elements: political legitimacy, scientific credibility and saliency.”
saliaunce
  1. (obsolete) salience; onslaught
saliaunces
  1. plural of saliaunce
saliences
saliencies
  1. plural of saliency
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The areas with low image saliency can be compressed at higher compression ratios depending on their different saliencies.”
      “There are advantages to eliminating saliencies in this manner, becoming attuned to the slightest incidents.”
      “Thus inquiry's organization of the world is always partial, and cast in terms of the saliencies found expressing the self and communities of inquirers.”
salients
  1. plural of salient
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Germans now became a menace on the borders of the wood, where they impinged on a number of awkward pockets or little salients.”
      “There are also counterguards in front of the salients, whose ends overlap the ends of the tenaille.”
      “An old form of outwork somewhat similar to the ravelin, originally placed before the salients of bastions.”
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