Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - dominant
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 dominating, prevailing, most influential. 2 (of a high place) prominent, overlooking others. 3 a (of an allele) expressed even when inherited from only one parent. b (of an inherited characteristic) appearing in an individual even when its allelic counterpart is also inherited (cf. RECESSIVE). --n. Mus. the fifth note of the diatonic scale of any key. Derivatives dominantly adv. Etymology: F f. L dominari (as DOMINATE)
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin ~-, dominans, present participle of dominari Date: circa 1532 1. commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others , very important, powerful, or successful , overlooking and commanding from a superior position , of, relating to, or exerting ecological or genetic dominance, being the one of a pair of bodily structures that is the more effective or pre~ in action , ~ly adverb Synonyms: see: ~ II. noun Date: 1819 the fifth tone of a major or minor scale, 2. a ~ genetic character or factor, any of one or more kinds of organism (as a species) in an ecological community that exerts a controlling influence on the environment and thereby largely determines what other kinds of organisms are present, a ~ individual in a social hierarchy ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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