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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prominence \Prom"i*nence\, Prominency \Prom"i*nen*cy\, n. [L.
prominentia: cf F. prominence. See {Prominent}. ]
1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out
from something conspicuousness.
2. That which is prominent; a protuberance.
{Solar prominences}. (Astron.) See {Solar Protuberances},
under {Protuberance}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
prominence
n 1: the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent [ant:
{obscurity}]
2: relative importance
3: something that protrudes [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity},
{gibbousness}, {jut}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion},
{excrescence}]
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