salient

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Salient

Salient may refer to:

Salient (geography), part of a discrete territory projecting out of the main portion, bordered by foreign territory on three sides, into which it projects; also called a panhandle
Salient (heraldry), an adjective describing a heraldic beast in a leaping attitude
Salient (magazine), Victoria University of Wellington student publication
Harvard Salient, Harvard University conservative student newspaper
Salient (territory), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory
Salient pole, a salient (i.e., projecting) electromagnetic pole of a field coil
Salient Software, a utility software company between 1990 and 1992, taken over by Fifth Generation Systems, meanwhile Symantec / Norton
Salient Arms International an American firearms maker based in Oxnard, California