- 1. a. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. Source: opted
- 2. n. The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. Source: opted
- 3. adj. exercising influence or control Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. most frequent or common Source: wordnet
- 6. n. (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale Source: wordnet
- 7. n. an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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. Source: adambom
- 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 Source: ecdict
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