prominence

Noun
  1. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent (synset 114457053)
    is a type of: standing - social or financial or professional status or reputation
    subtypes:
  2. Relative importance (synset 105177034)
    is a type of: importance - the quality of being important and worthy of note
  3. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings (synset 113917127)
    "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"
    is a type of: projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something
    subtypes:
    • frontal eminence - either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit
    • occipital protuberance - prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone
    • belly - a part that bulges deeply
    • caput - a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
    • mogul - a bump on a ski slope
    • nub, nubble - a small lump or protuberance
    • snag - a sharp protuberance
    • wart - any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
    same as: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling

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