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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dominant adj 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}] n : (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
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