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单词 prominency
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prominencyn.

Brit. /ˈprɒmᵻnənsi/, U.S. /ˈprɑmən(ə)nsi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōminentia.
Etymology: < classical Latin prōminentia (see prominence n.); compare -y suffix3, -ency suffix. Compare Spanish prominencia (1486 or earlier), Portuguese prominência (1445; the more usual Portuguese word is proeminência (1858)). Compare earlier prominence n.
1. The quality of being prominent (in various senses); conspicuousness; = prominence n. 1, 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence
prominence1533
prominency1650
markedness1846
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun]
projecture1563
jutting1565
project1596
juttying1611
prominence1611
excursiona1626
extancy1644
outjetty1650
projection1664
projecting1726
jetting1754
saliency1834
salience1849
protrusion1853
prominency1871
pout1880–4
out-thrust1955
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 323 The prominency of this extravagant Tower.
1755 J. G. Cooper Lett. conc. Taste 24 Raphael's [pieces]..had not that Prominency, nor seem'd to come out from the Canvass so boldly.
1793 E. Gibbon Let. 11 Nov. (1956) III. 359 Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia.
1836 Rand. Recoll. Ho. Lords xi. 241 Brought before the public..with some degree of prominency.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 12 The prominency of..his organs of vision.
1928 Soc. Forces 7 44/1 There exists..a correlation between leadership, or prominency, or intelligence, and the mobility of individuals.
1976 Acta Musicologica 48 159 The prominency of Isaac and his work..has obscured..the accomplishments of other musicians.
2000 Chest (Nexis) 1 May 299 s COPD and chronic asthma broadly separate in terms of the prominency of inflammatory cell types.
2. A physically prominent thing, a projection, a protuberance; = prominence n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part
hornc1275
outshooting1310
nosec1400
startc1400
spout1412
snouta1425
outbearingc1425
outstanding?c1425
relish1428
jeta1500
rising1525
shoulder1545
jutting1565
outshootc1565
prominence1578
forecast1580
projection1592
sprout1598
eye1600
shooting forth1601
lip1608
juttying1611
prominent?1611
eminence1615
butting1625
excursiona1626
elbow1626
protrusion1646
jettinga1652
outjetting1652
prominency1654
eminency1668
nouch1688
issuanta1690
out-butting1730
outjet1730
out-jutting1730
flange1735
nosing1773
process1775
jut1787
projecture1803
nozzle1804
saliency1831
ajutment1834
salience1837
out-thrust1842
emphasis1885
cleat1887
outjut1893
pseudopodiuma1902
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. ii. 143 Those Atoms which exhale from the Cavities or Deprest parts of the superficies of any Concretion, and those which exhale from the Prominencies, or Eminent Parts.
a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 335 A perpendicular hollow cliffe..with now & then a craggy prominency jetting out.
1703 Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 183 Cut off the prominencies that are not concentrick to the Axis.
1813 Examiner 29 Mar. 205/1 All obtrusive prominencies are levelled down.
1889 Loudon's Nat. Hist. 532 The Snipe Shell.., so called on account of the length of the prominency coming out of the shell.
1940 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 28 565 Presumably the presence of these ‘horns’ was due to individual variation... In the two known skulls and Calops there is no trace of such prominencies.
1968 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 9 147 The glowing blood-red prominencies of the Sun.
2005 Materials Lett. 59 3282/1 Once any sporadic prominencies occur on the solid–vapor interface, the comb-teeth can project towards the colder ZnO vapor in front.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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