<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.</li><li>something that is prominent; a projection or protuberance: a prominence high over a ravine.</li><li>an eruption of a flamelike tongue of relatively cool, high-density gas from the solar chromosphere into the corona where it can be seen during a solar eclipse or by observing strong spectral lines in its emission spectrum.</li></ul>