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Pocket: see "salient". Pyrrhic victory: a victory paid for so dearly that it potentially could lead to a later defeat ("a battle won, a war lost"). Raid; Rank: a single line of soldiers. Reconnaissance; Reconnoitre: to go to an area (reconnoitering) to find out information of the exact location of an enemy force.
According to this theory, a stimulus is "in-salient" if it is not in harmony with perceiver's worldview. It is "re-salient" if it is in harmony with the perceiver's goals (Guido, 1998). [16] Salience is a construct that depends on the ability of the mind to access the feelings or emotions (affect) generated by the salient stimulus.
A salient, also known as a bulge, is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. The salient is surrounded by the enemy on multiple sides, making the troops occupying the salient vulnerable. The opponent's front line that borders a salient is referred to as a re-entrant – that is, an angle pointing
Salient may refer to: Salient (military), a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory; Salient (geography), an elongated protrusion of a territory; Salient (heraldry), an adjective describing a heraldic beast in a leaping attitude; Salient pole, a projecting electromagnetic pole of a field coil
A salient, panhandle, or bootheel is an elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
The social salience of an individual is a compilation of that individual's salient attributes. These may be changes to dress or physical attributes with respect to a previous point in time or with respect to the surrounding environment. Salient attributes of an individual may include the following: Clothing (e.g., boldly patterned clothing)
Salience (also called saliency, from Latin saliō meaning “leap, spring” [1]) is the property by which some thing stands out.Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.
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