SALIANT
, in Fortification, is said of an angle that projects its point outwards; in opposition to a reentering angle, which has its point turned inwards. Instances of both kinds of these we have in tenailles and star-works.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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