Dom"i*nant , n. (Mus.) 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.
Dom"i*nant (?), a. [L. dominans, -antis, p.
pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.]
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.
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