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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, adjective [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 {Dominant 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, noun (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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dominant
adjective
1: exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage" [ant: {subordinate}]
2: of genes; producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar [ant: {recessive}]
noun: (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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