About The Word Dominant
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Dominant
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What's The Definition Of Dominant?
[n] (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
[adj] exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage" [adj] of genes; producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar Synonyms | Synonyms for Dominant: ascendant | ascendent | controlling | dominating | governing | in charge | overriding | paramount | possessive | predominant | predominate | preponderant | preponderating | sovereign | superior | supreme Related Terms | Find terms related to Dominant: absolute | accidental | all-absorbing | arch | ascendant | assertive | at the head | authoritarian | authoritative | authorized | autocratic | average | banner | besetting | boss | breve | capital | cardinal | central | champion | chief | clothed with authority | cock | commanding | common | competent | conquering | consequential | considerable | controlling | crotchet | crowning | current | defeating | demisemiquaver | dominant note | double whole note | duly constituted | eighth note | eminent | empowered | enharmonic | enharmonic note | epidemic | ex officio | first | flat | flushed with success | focal | foremost | general | governing | great | half note | head | headmost | hegemonic | hegemonistic | hemidemisemiquaver | highest | imperative | important | in ascendancy | in charge | in chief | in the ascendant | influential | key | key signature | keynote | leading | magisterial | main | major | major key | master | mediant | mighty | minim | minor | momentous | monocratic | musical note | natural | normal | note | number | official | on the throne | ordinary | outstanding | overbearing | overcoming | overriding | overruling | pandemic | paramount | patent note | pedal point | popular | potent | powerful | predominant | predominate | predominating | preeminent | premier | prepollent | preponderant | preponderate | prepotent | prestigious | prevailing | prevalent | primal | primary | prime | principal | prominent | puissant | quarter note | quaver | rampant | ranking | regnant | regulating | regulative | regulatory | reigning | report | responding note | rife | routine | ruling | running | semibreve | semiquaver | senior | shaped note | sharp | sixteenth note | sixty-fourth note | sovereign | spiccato | staccato | standard | star | stellar | stereotyped | subdominant | submediant | substantial | subtonic | successful | supereminent | superior | supertonic | supreme | surpassing | sustained note | swaying | tercet | thirty-second note | tonality | tone | tonic | tonic key | topflight | topmost | totalitarian | transcendent | triplet | triumphal | triumphant | uppermost | usual | vanquishing | victorious | weighty | whole note | winning See Also | musical note | note | tone Dominant In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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. |
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