the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

relative importance

something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge; the hump of a camel; he stood on the rocky prominence; the occipital protuberance was well developed; the bony excrescence between its horns

[ Syn: bulge , bump , hump , swelling , gibbosity , gibbousness , jut , protuberance , protrusion , extrusion , excrescence ]