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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent;

2. relative importance;

3. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings;
- Example: "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"
- Example: "the hump of a camel"
- Example: "he stood on the rocky prominence"
- Example: "the occipital protuberance was well developed"
- Example: "the bony excrescence between its horns"
[syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prominence \Prom"i*nence\, Prominency \Prom"i*nen*cy\, n. [L.
   prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See Prominent. ]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out
      from something; conspicuousness.
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   2. That which is prominent; a protuberance.
      [1913 Webster]

   Solar prominences. (Astron.) See Solar Protuberances,
      under Protuberance.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prominence
    n 1: the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent [ant:
         obscurity]
    2: relative importance
    3: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
       its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious
       bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky
       prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed";
       "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge,
       bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness,
       jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion,
       extrusion, excrescence]