Prominence (disambiguation)
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Prominence may refer to:
  • Solar prominence
    Solar prominence
    A prominence is a large, bright feature 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 outwards into the Sun's corona...

    , a phenomenon occurring on the Sun
  • Topographic prominence
    Topographic prominence
    In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop , or prime factor , categorizes the height of the mountain's or hill's summit by the elevation between it and the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit...

    , a categorization of hills or mountains
  • Maxillary prominence, a facial bone
  • Prominence (phonetics) in linguistic expressions
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