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Dominant   /dˈɑmənənt/   Listen
Dominant

adjective
1.
Exercising influence or control.  "The dominant partner in the marriage"
2.
(of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar.
3.
Most frequent or common.  Synonyms: predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife.
noun
1.
(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale.
2.
An allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different.  Synonym: dominant allele.



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"Dominant" Quotes from Famous Books



... wraiths of blue smoke falteringly bespoke the presence of people and cabins; on a cleared hill an object that might be horse or dog or man was silhouetted, small and vague; and in the farthest west the hoister of a deserted zinc mine cut up against the sky a little lonely way. The near and dominant things were constantly those tremulous, fleeing billows of grass, the straight strong trees, the sullen rocks, the ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... in their native literature which marked the taste of their creator. We find that the personages in his books are often distinguished by that love of stirring poetry, particularly of popular and national poetry, which was a dominant trait in ...
— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball
... history of this war is written, Ambrose, with flamboyant phrases and copious rhetoric, there will be unwritten chapters, more dramatic, having really more direct effect upon the final issue than even the great battles which have seemed the dominant factors. Sit tight here, Ambrose, and wait. I may be going over ...
— The Kingdom of the Blind • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... often been the case in the history of the world, that the real victory has rested with the vanquished: but it has always been brought about by the one race mixing with and absorbing the other. Where that does not take place, the conquerors remain dominant. ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... of Charboniere, from the summit of which was seen that intermingling of narrow gorges and wooded heights which is so characteristic of this mountainous region. On all sides were indented horizons of trees, among which a few, of more dominant height, projected their sharp outlines against the sky; in the distance were rocky steeps, with here and there a clump of brambles, down which trickled slender rivulets; still farther, like little islands, half submerged in a sea of foliage, were pastures of tender green dotted ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet


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