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Definition of Dominant
Dominant

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.

The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

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Dominant Quotations

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.
Tiger Woods

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Soren Kierkegaard

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Jacques Derrida

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
Twyla Tharp

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.
Shaquille O'Neal

Dominant Translations

dominant in German is herrschend, beherrschend
dominant in Spanish is dominante


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