Found 4 items, similar to Dominant.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: dominant
dominan
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: dominant
berkuasa, dominan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dominant
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]
dominant
n : (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dominant
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.
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The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with
the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but
imperious, insolent, and cruel. --Macaulay.
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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.
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Syn: Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant;
ascendant.
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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.
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Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.
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