prominence
/ˈprɒmɪnəns/noun
mass noun
1
- the state of being important or famous重要性; 卓越, 显著, 著名：
Bridget Riley came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s
布里奇特·赖利在20世纪60年代成为卓越的艺术家
in sing. the commission gave the case a prominence which it might otherwise have escaped.委员会把这一案例列入重要议程, 否则它可能已被忽略。
2
- the fact or condition of standing out from something by physically projecting or being particularly noticeable突起, 凸出：
radiographs showed enlargement of the right heart with prominence of the pulmonary outflow tract.
拍片结果显示, 肺动脉流出管的突起使得右心房扩大。
2.1
- count noun a thing that projects from something, especially a projecting feature of the landscape or a protuberance on a part of the body（尤指地形或身体部位）凸出物：
the steep, rocky prominence resembled a snow-capped mountain.
那陡峭的、多石的凸体很像一座雪山。
2.2
- count noun Astronomy a stream of incandescent gas projecting above the sun's chromosphere【天文】日珥。
词源
late 16th cent. (denoting something that juts out)： from obsolete French，from Latin prominentia 'jutting out'，from the verb prominere （see PROMINENT）.