DOMINANT. estates. In the civil law, this term is used to signify the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate; for example, where the owners of the estate, Blackacre, have a right of way or passage over the estate Whiteacre, the former is called the dominant, and the latter the servient estate. Bouv. Inst. n. 1600.

Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
 

Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. [1913 Webster]

Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.]

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. [1913 Webster]

The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Dominant estate or Dominant tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. --Bouvier. --Wharton's Law Dict.

Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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dominant adj
1: exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage" [ant: subordinate]
2: of genes; producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar [ant: recessive]

noun

(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.]

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. --Macaulay.

Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. --Bouvier. --Wharton's Law Dict.

Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.

Syn: Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Dominant \Dom"i*nant\, n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)