Definition of dominant

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Dominant (a.) Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power..

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Sovereign :: Sovereign (a.) Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
Osmanli :: Osmanli (n.) A Turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of Turks; loosely, any Turk..
Blue Jay :: Blue jay () The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue..
Solar :: Solar (a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
Ideo-motor :: Ideo-motor (a.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence..
Regnant :: Regnant (a.) Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent.
Belles-lettres :: Belles-lettres (n. pl.) Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Ruling :: Ruling (a.) Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign..
Enslave :: Enslave (v. t.) To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
Prevalent :: Prevalent (a.) Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious..
Alkalescency :: Alkalescency (n.) A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant..
Predominance :: Predominance (n.) The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination.
Essence :: Essence (n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like..
Prepollent :: Prepollent (a.) Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
Prevailing :: Prevailing (a.) Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion..
Predominantly :: Predominantly (adv.) In a predominant manner.
Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..
Supereminence :: Superdominant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.
Demicadence :: Demicadence (n.) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note..
Magyar :: Magyar (n.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian..
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