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adj. Exercising the most influence or control.

adj. Most prominent, as in position; ascendant.

adj. Genetics Of, relating to, or being an allele that produces the same phenotypic effect whether inherited with a homozygous or heterozygous allele.

adj. Ecology 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.

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

n. Genetics A dominant allele or trait.

n. Ecology A dominant species.

n. Music The fifth tone of a diatonic scale.

n. 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.

n. The triad built on the dominant tone.

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

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

adj. Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant.

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

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.

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

n. 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.

n. 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

n. which exhibits it, and

n. those of its descendants which exhibit it, and

n. the parental character, and

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

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

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

adj. exercising influence or control

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

adj. most frequent or common

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

n. 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."

preponderant    sovereign    ascendant    controlling    superior    supreme    paramount    governing    dominating    possessive   

tone    musical note    note    allele    allelomorph   

extracted dominant    dominant chord    upper dominant    dominant branch of a tree    under dominant    dominant tenement    dominant harmony    dominant section    dominant group    dominant estate   

ascendant    controlling    governing    predominant    prevailing    ruling    imposing   

predominant    prominent   

political    predominant    vital    diverse    cultural    popular