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  • noun Plural form of prominence.

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Examples

  • For years astronomers were greatly perplexed as to the nature of these incandescent masses, known as prominences, which shot out like fireworks, and were only visible during the total eclipses of the Sun.

    Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883

  • We have in Fig. 19 a diagram of a total eclipse, showing some of the remarkable objects known as prominences (_a_, _b_, _c_, _d_, _e_) which project from behind the dark body of the moon.

    The Story of the Heavens 1876

  • Behind these parts we find, between the cerebrum and cerebellum, a small ganglion composed of two prominences, which is called the corpus quadrigeminum on account of a superficial transverse fissure cutting across (Figures 2.290 m and 2.291 v).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Gall simply published what he saw, or thought he saw, and being a very imperfect, inaccurate observer of forms and outlines, he attached himself chiefly to the idea of prominences (or bumps) at certain localities, and to his mode of presenting the subject we are mainly indebted for the ridicule of phrenology as a science of bumps.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 1856

  • It is these red "prominences" which are such a notable feature in the picture of the eclipse of the sun already referred to.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • To be able to see such features as the diamond ring effect (the final flash of light before entering totality), the corona [en] [ja] (the sun's glowing hot outer atmosphere) and the explosive solar prominences [en] [ja] during the eclipse is reliant upon the the moon's distance from the earth, and naturally, the earth's distance from the sun.

    Global Voices in English » The Sun went out over Japan recently. 2009

  • The corona is characterized by solar prominences which are immense clouds of super heated glowing gas that has erupted from the upper chromosphere.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1067 2009

  • No sunspots or large active regions were visible on the Sun this day, although some solar prominences are visible around the edges.

    The Blue Sun 2009

  • Solar prominences twisted in the intensifying magnetic field as the object plummeted through the chromosphere.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • IMO, fundamental social groups have always been composed of either age differentiated associations, gender differentiated associations, or regionalized groupings; however, these categories may not have perennially sustained their identical prominences, in modern, society?

    Think Progress » Democrats Need To Pass A Comprehensive Health Care Bill 2010

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