Salient
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Salient may refer to:
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The word "salient" also has a metaphorical meaning related to the below. When something (or someone) is salient, that means that is "sticks out like a sore thumb".
- See Salients, re-entrants and pockets for the battlefield feature
- Salient (geography), part of a discrete territory projecting out of the main portion, bordered by foreign territory on three sides, into which it projects. These are also frequently called panhandles
- Salient (magazine), Victoria University of Wellington student publication
- Attitude (heraldry)#Salient
- Salient pole, a salient (i.e. projecting) electromagnetic pole of a field coil