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noun
1the state of being important or famous:she came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s [in singular]:the commission gave the case a prominence which it might otherwise have escaped
2the fact or condition of standing out from something by physically projecting or being particularly noticeable:radiographs showed enlargement of the right heart with prominence of the pulmonary outflow tract a thing that projects from something, especially a projecting feature of the landscape or a protuberance on a part of the body:the rocky prominence resembled a snow-capped mountain Astronomy a stream of incandescent gas projecting above the sun’s chromosphere.