adjective. undefined

adjective. Exercising the most power, control, or influence.

adjective. Most abundant or conspicuous; predominant.

adjective. Higher; overlooking.

adjective. Tending to be stronger than its counterpart or used for the most important tasks or in the most pressing situations.

adjective. Of, relating to, or being an allele that produces the same phenotypic effect in heterozygotes as in homozygotes.

adjective. Of, relating to, or being a species that is most characteristic of an ecological community and usually determines the presence, abundance, and type of other species.

adjective. Relating to or based on the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.

noun. A dominant allele or a trait produced by a dominant allele.

noun. A dominant species.

noun. The fifth tone of a diatonic scale.

Exercising rule or chief authority; governing; predominant: as, the dominant party or faction.

Hence Having a controlling effect or influence; most conspicuous or effective; overshadowing.

noun. In music: The reciting tone in Gregorian scales or modes.

noun. The fifth tone in the modern scales or modes: so called because of its importance in relation to the key-note or tonic.

Having the crown free to light on all sides because of greater height. See crown *class.

Characterized by or exhibiting dominance. See dominance, 2.

noun. In biology, when the cross-bred offspring of parents with antagonistic or mutually exclusive characters visibly exhibits a character of one parent, while it does not visibly exhibit but is able to transmit to descendants the antagonistic character of the other parent, then the character which is manifested, and the cross-bred organism

noun. which exhibits it, and

noun. those of its descendants which exhibit it, and

noun. the parental character, and

noun. the parent that exhibits it, are all called dominants.

noun. The greatest of a set of numbers without regard to sign.

noun. In petrography, in the quantitative classification (see rock), a factor which dominates over another between the ratios and .

noun. The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

noun. the chord based upon the dominant.

adjective. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant.

adjective. 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.

adjective. undefined

adjective. one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.

noun. The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

noun. The triad built on the dominant tone.

adjective. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

adjective. Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.

adjective. exercising influence or control

noun. (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

adjective. most frequent or common

adjective. (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar

noun. an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different

"By convention, the term dominant hemisphere refers to the cerebral hemisphere that is organized functionally to express language."

dominant branch of a tree  dominant character  dominant chord  dominant estate  dominant group  

ascendant  ascendent  controlling  dominant tenement  dominating  

allele  allelomorph  musical note  note  tone  

predominant  prominent  

cultural  diverse  political  popular  predominant  

absolute  accidental  all-absorbing  arch  ascendant