Prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

in topography is a measure of the independence of a summit. Prominence or Prominent may also refer to: *

Celebrity Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media. An individual may attain a celebrity status from having great wealth, their participation in sports ...

, fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups *

Prominence (phonetics) In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as i ...

, stress given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a word in a sentence * ''Prominence'' (2015 video game), a science fiction point and click adventure game *

Maxillary prominence Continuous with the dorsal end of the first pharyngeal arch, and growing forward from its cephalic border, is a triangular process, the maxillary prominence (or maxillary process), the ventral extremity of which is separated from the mandibula ...

, part of the face *

Solar prominence A prominence, sometimes referred to as a filament, is a large plasma and magnetic field structure extending outward from the Sun's surface, often in a loop shape. Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend ou ...

, a large, bright, gaseous feature extending outward from the Sun's surface * "Prominent" (song), a song by Bonez MC and RAF Camora *Prominents, moths in the family

Notodontidae Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. The family was described by James Francis Stephens in 1829. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, espe ...

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