Definition of "prominences" [prominences]

• Plural form of prominence. (noun)

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• "For years astronomers were greatly perplexed as to the nature of these incandescent masses, known as prominences, which shot out like fireworks, and were only visible during the total eclipses of the Sun."
• "We have in Fig. 19 a diagram of a total eclipse, showing some of the remarkable objects known as prominences (_a_, _b_, _c_, _d_, _e_) which project from behind the dark body of the moon."
• "Behind these parts we find, between the cerebrum and cerebellum, a small ganglion composed of two prominences, which is called the corpus quadrigeminum on account of a superficial transverse fissure cutting across (Figures 2.290 m and 2.291 v)."