salient

Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.

The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.

With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy."

Prominent; conspicuous.

Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.

He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.

Depicted in a leaping posture.

a lion salient

Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.

a salient angle

Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.

frogs and salient animals

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

On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.

The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.

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 i

Orogenic arcs are made up by more advanced segments (salients) separated by less advanced zones (recesses) (Miser, 1932). Within salients, the critical taper is lower, the distance among thrust ramps is larger, and there may be more ramps departing from the basal décollement layer with respect to the recess areas.