Definition for
dominant
– 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.
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Having the crown free to light on all sides because of greater height. See
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Characterized by or exhibiting dominance. See
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
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