[ US /ˈpɹɑmənəns/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒmɪnəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. relative importance
  2. the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
  3. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
    the hump of a camel
    the bony excrescence between its horns
    the occipital protuberance was well developed
    the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
    he stood on the rocky prominence
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How To Use prominence In A Sentence

  • Kij: Nice to see Dream-Quest receive such prominence with that fantastic Gervasio Gallardo cover, inseparable from the contents thanks to childhood associations very similar to yours. MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
  • Man, the surface of the skull is comparatively smooth, and the supraciliary ridges or brow prominences usually project but little — while, in the Gorilla, vast crests are developed upon the skull, and the brow ridges overhang, the cavernous orbits, like great penthouses. Essays
  • The neck (collum mallei) is the narrow contracted part just beneath the head; below it, is a a prominence, to which the various processes are attached. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 3. The Auditory Ossicles
  • Hale also gained prominence as an astronomer with his invention of the spectroheliograph and the discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots.
  • As for prominence, some of that is luck, some is skill, and some is being on good terms ideologically or acquaintance-wise with a big-hitter like Instapundit. Marcotte blames sexism for her troubles.
  • The chemotherapeutic equivalent of that surgical assault—of eviscerating the body and replacing it with an implant—was a procedure known as autologous bone marrow transplant, or ABMT, which roared into national and international prominence in the mid-1980s. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • But when restraints to which he had long been accustomed and to which he yielded passive obedience were removed, and he was left in a condition of license, all the abeyant passions of his undisciplined nature were brought into prominence and antagonism with an environment where reciprocal obligations have not always found their highest expression. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
  • Sympathectomy has failed to secure a place in ophthalmic surgery, sclerotomy has not been found adequate, and cyclodialysis is not sufficiently simple of execution or permanently beneficial in its results to give it prominence. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
  • YouTube, members decide which photographs and videos should rise to prominence by " favouriting ", linking and commenting.
  • Pressure ulcers are thought to develop over bony prominences as a result of excessive pressure.
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