salient

adj 1: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an

outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned

by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to

their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most

prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a

spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about

Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center";

"a striking resemblance between parent and child"

[syn: {outstanding}, {prominent}, {spectacular}, {striking}]

2: (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180

degrees [ant: {re-entrant}]

3: (heraldry) represented as leaping (rampant but leaning

forward) [syn: {salient(ip)}]

n : (military) the part of the line of battle that projects

closest to the enemy

client

A computer system or process that requests a

service of another computer system or process (a "{server}")

using some kind of {protocol} and accepts the server's

responses. A client is part of a {client-server} software

architecture.

For example, a {workstation} requesting the contents of a file

from a {file server} is a client of the file server.

(1997-10-27)