prominence : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: prominence	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for prominence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prominence n the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent [ant: obscurity] relative importance 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" Synonym(s): bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prominence \Prom"inence\, Prominency \Prom"inen*cy\, n. [L. prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See {Prominent}. ] 1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness. 2. That which is prominent; a protuberance. {Solar prominences}. (Astron.) See {Solar Protuberances}, under {Protuberance}.