Sa·li·ent a.
 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. “Frogs and salient animals.”
 2. Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
    He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action.   --Burke.
 3. Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
    He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.   --Bancroft.
 4. Math. & Fort. Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.
 5. Her. Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.
 Salient angle. See Salient, a., 4.
 Salient polygon Geom., a polygon all of whose angles are salient.
 Salient polyhedron Geom., a polyhedron all of whose solid angles are salient.


 salient angle
      n : an angle pointing outward; an interior angle of a polygon
          that is less than 180 degrees [ant: reentrant angle]