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单词 point saillant
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point saillantn.

Brit. /ˌpwã saˈjɒ̃/, U.S. /ˌpwɑn(t) seɪˈjɑn(t)/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French point saillant.
Etymology: < French point saillant starting point (late 17th cent., in specific sense ‘the heart’: see salient point at salient adj. 3a).
Geometry. rare.
A point at which two branches of a curve meet and terminate, and at which they do not have a common tangent.
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1852 I. Todhunter Diff. Calculus xxii. 281 A point saillant is a point at which two branches of a curve meet and stop without having a common tangent.
1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 1504 Salient point or point saillant, two branches of the curve end without a continuous derivative, thus without a common tangent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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