Salient

Salient may refer to:

  • See Salients, re-entrants and pockets for the battlefield feature
  • Salient (geography), part of a discrete territory projecting out of the main portion, bordered by foreign territory on three sides, into which it projects. These are also frequently called panhandles
  • Salient (magazine), Victoria University of Wellington student publication
  • Attitude (heraldry)#Salient
  • Salient pole, a salient (i.e. projecting) electromagnetic pole of a field coil