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What does prominent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word prominent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Standing out, or projecting; jutting; protuberant.
  2. Likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous.
  3. Eminent; distinguished above others.
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The ephydrids are especially prominent around inland salt and alkaline ponds and marshes and thermal and mineral springs.
Boole became a prominent local figure, an admirer of John Kaye, the bishop.
Gelifluction is prominent in periglacial regions where snow falls during six to eight months of the year.
Although difficult to calculate, one prominent newspaper estimates that guolaosi claims the lives of 600 000 people in China each year.
Lincoln's approach to popular sovereignty contrasts with that of another prominent Republican, William H. Seward.
This extreme cautiousness, which was, indeed, the most remarkable feature in his character, still made itself prominent after his elevation.

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