[
US
/ˈdɑmənənt/
]
[ UK /dˈɒmɪnənt/ ]
[ UK /dˈɒmɪnənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar
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exercising influence or control
the dominant partner in the marriage
television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion -
most frequent or common
prevailing winds
NOUN
- (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
- an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
How To Use dominant In A Sentence
- The dominant ones were tree rings, and ice cores, but others like varves, pollen, lichens, historic soil temperatures, sea level (eustasy), land levels (isostasy) require similar audits. Merry Christmas « Climate Audit
- Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
- Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
- This part of the film develops slowly, and is predominantly a straight drama.
- The strong force is the one that is dominant in the atomic nucleus, acting between the quarks inside the proton and the neutron.
- The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.
- Research forms the predominant part of my job.
- A varietal is a wine made predominantly from one specific grape and is labeled as such, for example, California Merlot.
- Burundi and Rwanda are predominantly agricultural economies with their primary exports being coffee and tea.
- Forest trees are good experimental objects because they are dominants, and because suitable methods are available to determine growth increments.