different between prominence vs glome

English

Etymology

From obsolete French prominence (compare proéminence), from Latin prominentia.

Noun

prominence (countable and uncountable, plural prominences)

1. The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.

   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

2. Relative importance.
3. A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
4. (topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??m/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

Noun

glome (plural glomes)

1. (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
2. (botany) A globular head of flowers.
3. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

Etymology 2

Verb

glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate

     Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
     Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome

Noun

glome

1. (obsolete) gloom

Anagrams

• Gomel, golem