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promi·nence (präm′ə nəns)
noun
- the state or quality of being prominent
- something that is prominent or that sticks out, as a hill
- Astron. any of the luminous clouds of solar gas arching from the chromosphere into the much hotter corona: best seen at the edge of the sun, as during an eclipse
Etymology: < MFr < L prominentia < prominens: see prominent
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