'''Salient''' may refer to:
- Peninsula-like salients of political geography and Military Science. - Salients, re-entrants and pockets|Salient (military), a battlefield feature that projects an attacker's lines into enemy territory in such a way that the attacker is surrounded on three sides. - Salient (geography), part of a discrete territory projecting out of the main portion, bordered by foreign territory on three sides, into which it projects. These are also frequently called panhandles.
- Salient (magazine)|''Salient'' (magazine), Victoria University of Wellington student publication
- Attitude (heraldry)#Salient|Salient (heraldry) - '''Salient pole''', a salient (i.e. projecting) electromagnetic pole of a field coil
