What Is Prominence? Definition And Usage Of This Term

WHAT IS PROMINENCE – In this topic, we are going to know and learn the definition of this term and how is this term used in sentences.

Definition

The Oxford Dictionary defines the term as the following:

the state of being important or famous.
the fact or condition of standing out from something by physically projecting or being particularly noticeable.
a thing that projects from something, especially a projecting feature of the landscape or a protuberance on a part of the body.
a stream of incandescent gas projecting above the sun’s chromosphere.

Meanwhile, the Cambridge dictionary defines this term as the following:

Synonyms

Here are some of the following synonyms:

Etymology

It is an late 16th century term, which is from obsolete French, which is from the Latin prominentia or ‘jutting out’,

Examples

Here are some examples of the usage of this term:

Each country is described with particular regard to its people as well as to its surface, and the prominence given to the human element is of special interest.
With this view he studied the latter most laboriously, and in some measure certainly not without success, for he brought into prominence several points that had hitherto escaped the notice of his predecessors.
He came again into prominence, however, during the World War.
But by the ordinary student of thirty years later their work was to some extent overlooked, and the cell-wall assumed a prominence to which it was not entitled.