Superdominant

Quick meaning: Superdominant is an adjective meaning (law) Having an overwhelming proportion of market share, so as to be almost a monopoly.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Having a disproportionate degree of influence or salience.
2. (biology) Holding a position of absolute dominance.
3. Extremely dominating; controlling.
4. (genetics) Controlling or enhancing the expression of another pair of genes or chromosomes.
5. (anatomy, of an artery) Sufficiently large so as to control the blood flow to an area.
6. (forestry) Rising above the general level of the overstory.
7. (decision theory) Comprising the winning strategy in all cases.

Example Sentences

The face becomes superdominant, the eye subdominant, but nothing is properly predominant.

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

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.

Although the level of aggression was greatly reduced after the first day, the superdominant hierarchy persisted, although not always with the same superdominant individual.

Word Forms

• superdominants

Synonyms for superdominant

Depending on context, synonyms include submediant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eudominant, supreme, dominant, predominant, dominate, predominate.

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