Definition: prominence

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

prominence
     n 1: the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent [ant:
          obscurity]
     2: relative importance
     3: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
        a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
         jut, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Prominence \Prom"i*nence\, Prominency \Prom"i*nen*cy\, n. [L.
   prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See Prominent. ]
   1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out
      from something; conspicuousness.

   2. That which is prominent; a protuberance.

   Solar prominences. (Astron.) See Solar Protuberances,
      under Protuberance.