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salience


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Salience  \Sa"li*ence\,  n.  [See  {Salient}.] 
  1.  The  quality  or  condition  of  being  salient;  a  leaping;  a 
  springing  forward;  an  assaulting. 
 
  2.  The  quality  or  state  of  projecting,  or  being  projected; 
  projection;  protrusion.  --Sir  W.  Hamilton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  salience 
  n  :  the  state  of  being  salient  [syn:  {saliency},  {strikingness}] 




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