Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being salient.
- noun A pronounced feature or part; a highlight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fact or condition of being salient; the state of projecting or being projected; projection; protrusion.
- noun A projection; any part or feature of an object or whole which protrudes or juts out beyond its general surface, as a molding considered with reference to a wall which it decorates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
- noun The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
condition of beingsalient . - noun A
highlight ;perceptual prominence , orlikelihood of beingnoticed . - noun social sciences, linguistics
Relative importance based oncontext .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being salient
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Examples
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But these issues will gain salience when the economy recovers and energy prices go back up.
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But these issues will gain salience when the economy recovers and energy prices go back up.
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If political salience is the question -- more rather than less -- wouldn't it be more fruitful to speak directly about politics through essays, op-eds, and speeches than to distort one's "creative" work by bending it to the political winds?
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Further research is required to determine whether the change is simply associated with short-term increases in consumption from a perceived novelty of new pictures on trays, or if the images are generating long-term salience in students' minds.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Emmeline Zhao 2012
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This is interesting stuff, but I’m not sure it indicates that abortion and gay marriage have fallen in salience nearly enough.
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They see three domains “growing in salience with the turn toward networked public culture: 1) amateur and non-market production, 2) networked collectivities for producing and sharing culture, 3) niche and special-interest groups, and 4) aesthetics of parody, remix, and appropriation.”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Mimi Ito at DIY Media seminar on networked amateur cultural production 2006
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It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages.
Hello from A2 2008
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It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages.
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The first of these, called the salience imbalance theory3, solves the problem of feature selection by positing that metaphors involve comparisons between topics and vehicles that exhibit an imbalance in the saliency of the properties the creator of the metaphor wishes to hilghight.
Metaphor I: A Brief History of Metaphors in Cognitive Science Chris 2004
jwjarvis commented on the word salience
kind of reduce its salience for a group of folks who aren't persuadable
March 10, 2011