salient aspect

collocation in English

meaningsofsalientandaspect

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salient
adjective
uk
/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
us
/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
The salient facts about something or qualities of something are the most important things ...
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aspect
noun
uk
/ˈæs.pekt/
us
/ˈæs.pekt/
one part of a situation, problem, ...
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(Definition ofsalientandaspectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsalient aspect

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But apart from (61c), vertical elevation does not seem to be asalientaspectof overloading.
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Anothersalientaspectof the earliest sessions was the choice of instrument for improvising.
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In fact, reductive sound change may be just the mostsalientaspectof an overall reduction of high-frequency words.
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This would appear to be asalientaspectof the microsystem that could impact on the development of children in important ways.
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Fewer works concentrate on the mostsalientaspectof language, its combinatory nature.
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Onesalientaspectof this apparent contradiction is the wartime growth in spiritualism.
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Each attribute-value pair represents a linguisticallysalientaspectof the tree frame.
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But in its mostsalientaspect, that of the struggle over the division of the joint product, it is no longer a battle between individuals, but between groups of individuals.
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We will now outline the salient aspects of this program, relying on examples for the most part.
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In other words, we need recourse to more diverse means to elicit detailed descriptions of salient aspects of conscious experience.
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Rather, they represent different sets of simplifying assumptions designed to capture the most salient aspects of different learning situations.
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Adolescents vary in their ability and willingness to label their emotional reactions and to discuss emotionally salient aspects of their lives.
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Ilse talks about her friends primarily through narratives that illustrate salient aspects of her war time experiences.
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The most salient aspects of her vocal shortcomings seem trivial, as they concern failures to reach target pitches.
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The following is a brief summary of the salient aspects of the language.
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One of the most salient aspects of the early environment is the interaction between the primary caregiver and the offspring.
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In particular, we observe that the salient aspects of different events are distributed over time in different ways.
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The scale is intended to assess the salient aspects of depression including emotional, cognitive, and somatic symptoms.
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They show the salient aspects of that confirmation.
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