Dominant /(?)/

Dom·i·nant

Dominant

a.
  1. 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.

Phrases & Compounds
Dominant estate
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.
Dominant owner
one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.

Dominant

n.
  1. The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. (Mus.)

Phrases & Compounds
Dominant chord
the chord based upon the dominant.