Definition of Saliences

1. salience [n] - See also: salience

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saliences

salicylic aldehyde
salicylide
salicylides
salicylise
salicylism
salicylisms
salicylite
salicylites
salicylize
salicylol
salicylous
salicylsalicylic acid
salicylsulfonic acid
salicyluric acid
salience
saliences (current term)
saliencies
saliency
salient
salient(ip)
salient angle
salientian
salientians
saliently
salients
saliferous
salifiable
salification
salified
salifies

Literary usage of Saliences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roorkee Hydraulic Experiments by Allan Cunningham (1881)
"There will be seen to be small irregularities throughout in the curve of V, and much larger ones throughout in the curve of »0 : moreover, the saliences and ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"(6) In order to prevent this transverse cracking by excessive longitudinal stress, the ingot should be provided with saliences which, by outrunning the ..."

3. History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1892)
"A rectangular excavation, 10 c. deep, occurs between the two saliences, ... Thus, between pointed saliences which towards the centre of the platform rise ..."

4. History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1892)
"A rectangular excavation, 10 c. deep, occurs between the two saliences, ... Thus, between pointed saliences which towards the centre of the platform rise ..."

5. History of Art in Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1894)
"On these saliences we have placed a covering slab ... The saliences in question are not visible in PI. V., because the section was made at the back of this ..."

6. The Bathymetrical Features of the North Polar Seas: With a Discussion of the by Fridtjof Nansen (1904)
"for else it would be difficult to understand why the agencies carving the deep channels did not also sculpture the saliences between them to a much greater ..."

7. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1905)
"Doubtless the ice can grasp and pull or push away projecting blocks that have become loosened by weathering or which are much exposed in saliences. ..."

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