dominant

CEFRB1

/ˈdɒmɪnənt/

adjective · noun

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adjective
More powerful, important, or noticeable than others.
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adjective
Extra detail
Of an allele, that a heterozygote for the allele has the same phenotype as the homozygote.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
A species or organism that is dominant.

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Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.
1930, R. A. Fisher, J. H. Bennett, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, page 50
Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.
1966, John R. Bassett, Thinning loblolly pine from above and below, New Orleans, La: Southern Forest Experiment Station
This calendar is not for the faint of heart (unless you have some strong butch dominant to hold you while you swoon)
1988 December 25, Wickie Stamps, “Leather, Peace and Wombyn over Forty”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 7
His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.
2011, Jayne Rylon, Mistress's Master, page 65
The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, […] but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

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Borrowed from Middle French dominant.