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English Dictionary: dominant	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for dominant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dominant adj exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage" Antonym(s): low-level, subordinate (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar Antonym(s): recessive most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" Synonym(s): prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife n (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different Synonym(s): dominant allele, dominant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dominant \Dom"inant\, n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant* of C, A of D, and so on. {Dominant chord} (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dominant \Dom"inant\, a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See {Dominate}.] Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant* party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. --Macaulay. {Dominant estate} [or] {tenement} (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. --Bouvier. --Wharton's Law Dict. {Dominant owner} (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another. Syn: Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.