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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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