PROMINENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prominence mean? 

• PROMINENCE (noun)
  The noun PROMINENCE has 3 senses:

1. the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

2. relative importance

3. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

  Familiarity information: PROMINENCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROMINENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("prominence" is a kind of...):

standing (social or financial or professional status or reputation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prominence"):

glare; limelight; public eye; spotlight (a focus of public attention)

salience; saliency; strikingness (the state of being salient)

Antonym:

obscurity (an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known)

Derivation:

prominent (conspicuous in position or importance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relative importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("prominence" is a kind of...):

importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)

Derivation:

prominent (conspicuous in position or importance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling

Context example:

the bony excrescence between its horns

Hypernyms ("prominence" is a kind of...):

projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prominence"):

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))

 Context examples 

A prominence at the proximal end of the ulna.

(Olecranon, NCI Thesaurus)

The lateral prominence of the pelvis from the waist to the thigh.

(Hip, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement from the high prominence of the head to the low prominence of the buttocks of a fetus or embryo during ultrasound.

(Crown to Rump Length Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A bone prominence to which ligaments and tendons of the joints are attached.

(Epicondyle, NCI Thesaurus)

The bony prominence on the outside of the ankle formed by the distal end of the fibula.

(External Malleolus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by prominence of the lower part of the face due to bilateral replacement of the mandible or maxilla bones by excessive fibrous tissue.

(Cherubism, NCI Thesaurus)

Yet there was a set of the mouth and a prominence of the chin which relieved him of any trace of effeminacy.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Breast fibrocystic change characterized by the prominence of fibrotic changes in the parenchyma.

(Breast Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

She was very, very pale—almost ghastly, and so thin that her lips were drawn away, showing her teeth in somewhat of prominence.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

According to the size of the malignant cells, the prominence of the nucleoli, and the amount of cytoplasm, it is classified either as small or large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma.

(Ampulla of Vater Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)