What is the meaning of Salient?

Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.

Prominent; conspicuous.

Depicted in a leaping posture.

Gules, a reindeer salient or (arms of Vågå).

Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.

Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.

Shooting or springing out; projecting.

Denoting any angle less than two right angles.

An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.

A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.

An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.

third-person plural future active indicative of saliō

Source: wiktionary.org