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Definition of: dominant

(domə·nənt) adjective
1. Ruling; governing; predominant.
2. Genetics Designating a character transmitted by one parent of a hybrid offspring, in which it appears to the masking of the contrasted character transmitted by the other parent: opposed to recessive.
noun Music The fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
[<F <L dominans, -antis, ppr. of dominare DOMINATE]

Most often used phrases:

autosomal dominant
dominant force
dominant position
dominant role
dominant language
dominant species
dominant group
dominant political
dominant religion
dominant power
dominant figure
dominant feature
dominant party
dominant culture
dominant team

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Statistical data

"dominant" has the frequency of use of 0.0011% on city-data.com forum

"dominant" has the frequency of use of 0.002% on en.wikipedia.org.

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