saliency
pronunciation
How to pronounce saliency in British English:
UK [ˌseɪ'ljənsɪ]
How to pronounce saliency in American English:
US [ˌseɪ'ljənsɪ]
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- Noun:
- the state of being salient
Word Origin
- saliency (n.)
- 1660s, "leaping, jumping;" see salient (adj.) + -cy. From 1834 as "salience."
Example
- 1. To investigate the role of saliency and its contribution to drawing the owl 's attention , we used a popular bottom-up computational model .
- 2. Visual saliency is measured through a spatiotemporal attention model driven by intensity , color and motion .
- 3. As biblical authority has been abandoned in practice , as its truths have faded from christian consciousness , and as its doctrines have lost their saliency , the church has been increasingly emptied of its integrity , moral authority and direction .
- 4. However , it is clear that a substantial and varied quantity of written material containing information on chinese core values and practices was exported continuously to neighboring areas over a period of centuries and achieved a considerable degree of saliency and influence in those areas .
- 5. In the last study , the researcher experimentally manipulated the saliency of an individual 's hourly wage rate to see if this influenced the strength of the relationship between income and happiness .