projection vs salient

salient vs projection

projection and salient both are nouns.

projection is not an adjective while salient is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
projection	Yes	No	No	No
salient	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, salient is a hyponym of projection; that is, salient is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than projection:

projection: any solid convex shape that juts out from something
salient: (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy

Other hyponyms of projection include jag, bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling, acantha, spine, spur, tail, tail end, knife, tongue, keel.

projection (noun)	salient (noun)
the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting	(military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
the act of projecting out from something
any structure that branches out from a central support
the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
a planned undertaking
a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
any solid convex shape that juts out from something

projection (adjective)	salient (adjective)
	(of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
	having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
	represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)

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