Thesaurus: dominant

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1. a. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
2. n. The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
3. adj. exercising influence or control
4. adj. (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar
5. adj. most frequent or common
6. n. (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
7. n. an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
8. 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. 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.
9. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as,the dominant party, church, spirit, power.The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subjectrace, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, andcruel. Macaulay.Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude oreasement is due from another estate, the estate over which theservitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement.Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict.-- Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is aneasement owned by another.
10. j:99/n:1 n. (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale a. exercising influence or control a. (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar