dominant
adjective
ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence.
dominants
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pluralof dominant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His day job involved explaining the arcane workings of second-inversion dominants and Neapolitan sixths to a class of puzzled undergraduates that included me.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2011
Throughout albums like Innervisions or Songs in the Key of Life you'll find plenty of what you might call 'jazz chords' – flattened 9ths and secondary dominants and extended blues progressions and all that business.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
In its analysis he uses the Mendelian classification of biological traits into dominants and recessives, adds two other categories: survivals and mutations.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a note, however, he suggests the possibility that there are no such things as new dominants.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
For in each case it would be necessary to have several polled calves from each before they could with reasonable certainty be regarded as pure dominants.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
