| 单词 | salient point |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalient point d. Mathematics. salient point (see quot. a1832). ΚΠ a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 122 The points of curves which have been called shooting or saliant points, when the function dy/ dx becomes discontinuous by changing suddenly of value. salient point a. salient point [= French point saillant, modern Latin punctum saliens; the source of this use is Aristotle, Hist. Anim. vi. iii, Τοῦτο δὲ τὸ σημεῖον πηδᾳ̑ καὶ κινεῖται ὥσπερ ἔμψυχον, ‘this point [representing the heart in the egg] leaps and moves as alive’] : in old medical use, the heart as it first appears in an embryo (cf. quot. 1706); hence, the first beginning of life or motion; the starting-point of anything. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point terminus a quo1549 starting place1570 terma1628 salient motion1664 salient pointa1682 punctum saliens1695 starting point1782 Adam and Eve1793 starting ground1802 point of departure1804 baseline1836 point de départ1848 zero1849 start point1860 jumping-board1878 jumping-off board1914 jumping-off point1927 starting block1932 square one1952 a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 4 His End not unlike his Beginning, when the salient Point scarce affords a sensible motion. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Punctum Saliens, a little Speck or Cloud that appears in a Broodegg, and seems to leap before the Chicken begins to be hatch'd.] 1712 R. Blackmore Creation vi. 285 The Salient Point, so first is call'd the Heart. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 31 That was the salient point, from which all the mischiefs..of the present reign took life. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 7 The heart is the salient point of the circulation. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. v. 42 What a progress, since the first salient-point of the Breton Committee. 1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness iv. 39 What is the salient point, the spring, of a virtue? salient point 4. Of an angle: Pointing outward, as an ordinary angle of a polygon (opposed to re-entrant); chiefly in Fortification, ‘formed by two lines of works meeting and pointing towards the country’ (Voyle), i.e. away from the centre of the fortification. So salient point, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective] > constituting an angle > projecting salient1687 sortant1842 resalient1870 1687 J. Richards Jrnl. Siege Buda 19 We pierc'd the Wall of the Lower Town looking into St. Paul's Valley, and carry'd on a 3d Angle Salliant. 1702 Mil. Dict. at Bonnet A Work consisting of two Faces, which make an Angle Saillant in the Nature of a small Ravelin. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 79 Each Point, or Saliant Angle of each of the Piers. 1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IX. 12 When the attack upon the salient angle..succeeded. 1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 170 In ordinary crystals, the faces adjacent to each other always form salient, and never re-entering angles. 1838 Penny Cycl. X. 375/2 We obtain about 360 yards for the distance between the salient points F and E of the two bastions. 1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Salient Order of Battle, an order of battle, the front of the army being formed on a salient or outward angle. salient point b. Of immaterial things, qualities, etc.: Standing out from the rest; prominent, conspicuous; often in salient point (cf. A. 3). Also Psychology, standing out or prominent in consciousness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > outstanding jewel in the crown1615 jewel1673 prominence1826 salient point1841 highlight1850 high spot1894 salient1936 society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly notablea1398 staring?a1425 loud1535 gross1581 strong1583 signal1591 conspicuous1604 marked1620 remarked1623 ranka1640 signalized1652 bold1678 flaming1706 glaring1706 telegraphic1809 salient1841 howling1865 insistent1868 rampageous1889 the mind > mental capacity > memory > [adjective] > worthy of remembrance, memorable memoriablea1450 rememberablec1450 well-remembered1482 memorable1483 memorial?1504 memorousa1513 never-to-be-forgotten1586 rememorablea1641 unforgettable1806 nameable1858 memorious1882 salient1938 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [adjective] > prominent in memory salient1938 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 177 The great salient points are admirably seized. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xx. 87 His personal ascendancy..is the salient feature in the picture. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. viii. 179 Some few salient points emerge full of eternal significance. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xii. 401 In the midst of our activity we have so little that is salient or characteristic in our life. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §7. 421 No salient peculiarity seems to have left its trace on the memory of his contemporaries. 1938 H. D. Spoerl tr. Stern Gen. Psychol. from Personalistic Standpoint iv. 74 Dissonance is constant by being augmented or diminished. All experience consequently tends to become either salient against or embedded with the totality. 1938 G. W. Allport Personality xx. 553 The most important of all facts about consciousness is that it is graded; sometimes it stands out, as it were, against the diffuse background of personal life. It is salient... The more salient an experience, the greater its objective meaning. 1953 C. I. Hovland et al. Communication & Persuasion v. 161 A communication will produce more immediate change when the opposing group norms are at a low level of salience than when they are highly salient. 1965 T. M. Newcomb et al. Social Psychol. ii. 37 We shall use the term ‘salient’ to describe stored information that has been prompted to the forefront of the individual's conscious thought. < as lemmas |
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