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Adjektiivit

1. Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
2. Prominent; conspicuous.
3. (heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture. right
4. (often military) Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
5. (obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
6. (obsolete) Shooting or springing out; projecting.
7. (geometry) Denoting any angle less than two right angles.

Substantiivit

1. (military) An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
2. (geography) A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.
3. (geology) An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.