dominant

The definition of dominant is a person who is in a position of power or who is exhibiting powerful or controlling tendencies.

(adjective)

An example of dominant is a strong and powerful CEO.

Dominant is defined a person who exhibits power and control or a thing, like a gene, that exerts itself and makes itself known.

(noun)

Dominant refers to a gene that will present itself by producing a characteristic that can be inherited.

(adjective)

An example of a dominant gene is the brown-eyed gene, compared to the blue-eyed gene which is recessive.

See dominant in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

exercising authority or influence; dominating; ruling; prevailing
Genetics designating or relating to that one of any pair of allelic hereditary factors which, when both are present in the germ plasm, dominates over the other and appears in the organism
Music of or based upon the fifth tone of a diatonic scale

Origin: L dominans, prp. of dominari: see dominate

noun

Ecol. that species of plant or animal most numerous in a community or exercising control over the other organisms by its influence upon the environment
Genetics a dominant character or factor
Music the fifth note of a diatonic scale

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See dominant in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Exercising the most influence or control.
Most prominent, as in position; ascendant.
Genetics Of, relating to, or being an allele that produces the same phenotypic effect whether inherited with a homozygous or heterozygous allele.
Ecology Of, relating to, or being a species that is most characteristic of an ecological community and usually determines the presence, abundance, and type of other species.
Music Relating to or based on the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.

noun