dominant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.
2. isim The triad built on the dominant tone.
3. isim Of an allele, that a heterozygote for the allele has the same phenotype as the homozygote.

   “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.”

4. isim A species or organism that is dominant.

   “Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.”

5. isim The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

   “This calendar is not for the faint of heart (unless you have some strong butch dominant to hold you while you swoon)”

6. sıfat Ruling; governing; prevailing

   “The dominant party controlled the government.”

7. sıfat Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.

   “The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.”

8. sıfat Preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one.
9. sıfat Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
10. sıfat Being the dominant

    “Dominant seventh”