DOMINANTS

Noun

dominants

plural of dominant

Source: Wiktionary


DOMINANT

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

Definition: 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.

Dom"i*nant, n. (Mus.)

Definition: 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 Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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