Thursday, February 14, 2008

WOrd of the weEK... #3

Prominence...

Cynthia aka the teach used this word in her lecture.
example: prominence is one of the news values, its something you need to know. I've heard of that guy before.

prom·i·nence [prom-uh-nuns] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun
1.Also, prom·i·nen·cy. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
2.something that is prominent; a projection or protuberance: a prominence high over a ravine.
3.Also called solar prominence. Astronomy. 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.

my sentence-
I looked up the word prominence because I needed to understand what this word meant to help my news writing skills.

1 comment:

camccune said...

OK. Glad I could help.