superdominant

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having an overwhelming proportion of market share, so as to be almost a monopoly.

   • I would like to come back to the idea of making a distinction between so-called 'superdominant' companies and 'just dominant' companies.
2. 2

   Having a disproportionate degree of influence or salience.

   • New York, and later, Chicago were superdominant major centers for entire sections of the country. It is easy to understand how they grew into the main centers of jazz.
   • The face becomes superdominant, the eye subdominant, but nothing is properly predominant.
   • There is, therefore, a fairly complete control by the dominant culture of the institution of education—the institution that is the superdominant and required administrating arm of the rite de passage for all children.
3. 3

   Holding a position of absolute dominance.

   • Although the level of aggression was greatly reduced after the first day, the superdominant hierarchy persisted, although not always with the same superdominant individual.
   • Studies of groups of 5 previously isolated juvenile crayfish grouped together in a small 18cm x 18cm square aquarium indicate that they form tyrannies, in which one animal is superdominant to the others (Issa et al., 1999).
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   1. 4

      Extremely dominating

      Extremely dominating; controlling.

      • It's also important to note that we are attempting to identify the dominant and superdominant personality types as they relate to an individual's vital role on a particular team.
      • It is therefore extremely important to the holy-men to keep the worshippers permanently obedient to the superdominant figures, and this is done in several ways.
   2. 5

      Controlling or enhancing the expression of another pair of genes or chromosomes.

      • If the collection of ten polymorphic loci contains both dominant and superdominant loci, the graph comprises the same line segment for any ratio of dominant and superdominant loci.
      • Suppose a “superdominant” Y chromosome arose that could not be feminized by X*.
   3. 6

      Sufficiently large so as to control the blood flow to an area.

      • The RCA is dominant, but not superdominant, because the ST elevation in V 5-6 is a little smaller than 2 mm.
      • In this rare anomaly, a large “superdominant” right coronary artery crosses the crux of the heart, ascending the atrioventricular groove to perfuse the posterior and lateral wall of the heart.
   4. 7

      Rising above the general level of the overstory.

      • The managed old-growth alternative would actively recruit an acceptable number of large snags over time by allowing superdominant leave trees to mature and convert to large snags.
      • A few large dominant or superdominant trees should be left as potential nest trees.
      • Trees should not be included in a superdominant stratum unless they are considerably larger and clearly of an earlier generation than the trees of the main overstory.
   5. 8

      Comprising the winning strategy in all cases.

      • In decision-theoretical tenns, therefore, to believe in God is superdominant over disbelieving.
   6. 9

      The sixth tone of the scale, immediately above the dominant.

   7. 10

      A species that is present in disproportionately large numbers within an ecosystem.

      • A strategy for survival is needed to replace man's present role as an unrestricted superdominant of the biosphere, for this role is a strategy for self-defeat.
      • The earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi is also a typical superdominant of tundra cenoses.
      • Asca bicornis (27.8%) was no longer a superdominant, and three species of the family Laelapidae (Hypoaspis claviger, H. nolli and Hypoaspis aculeifer) jointly constituted 31.3% of total

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