salient feature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsalientandfeature
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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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feature
noun
uk/ˈfiː.tʃər/us/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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(Definition ofsalientandfeaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsalient feature
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The mostsalientfeatureof this model is its linguistic rigour, that guarantees neither over-acceptance nor over-generation.
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Asalientfeatureof that community (and other such learning communities) is the way in which learners are cognitively challenged and engaged.
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Asalientfeatureof the policy failure was the fragmentation of the state and its potential to degenerate into social and political disintegration.
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For these speakers, it is assumed that frication will be a perceptuallysalientfeature, and thus targeted first.
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Thesalientfeaturethat serves to indicate the appearance of the object is likewise selected before the search begins.
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First, rhyme is a particularlysalientfeatureof spoken words to preschool children.
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Unfortunately, most of the ceramics were badly eroded, and their mostsalientfeaturewas the thin and well worked paste.
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Thus, it is more than inability to communicate in foreign languages or with strange people that has determined thissalientfeatureof their communication patterns.
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Thesalientfeatureof all these words is that they code a space of lines.
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This finding again suggests that manner may be a moresalientfeaturethan place in the developing organization of the lexicon.
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Transformation, on many different levels, is asalientfeatureof this text. 25.
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Effectiveness emerges from different felicity conditions, particularly entitlement to speak, especially in mediated discourse - asalientfeaturein medieval verbal culture.
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This suggests that failure to initiate strategies spontaneously is asalientfeatureof executive dysfunction in these patients.
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This construct appears to be a moresalientfeatureof the men's than of the women's personality and motivation.
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Thesalientfeatureof this framework is that it decouples active camera control from robot control.
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Such practices demonstrate that, although interviewees have developed practices for resisting questions, the norm of answering remains asalientfeatureof the contemporary broadcast news interview.
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But that is true only for a purely neurophysiological model that cares nothing about phenomenology, where the unity of visual experience is its mostsalientfeature.
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Nirvana's repertoire in particular is filled with many apparent cross-relations, comprising asalientfeatureof their songwriting style.
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However, the movement focus event might be picked out more easily than the result focus event because itssalientfeatureis immediately observable and is constant over time.
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