pre·dom·i·nate

(prĭ-dŏm′ə-nāt′)

v. pre·dom·i·nat·ed, pre·dom·i·nat·ing, pre·dom·i·nates

v.intr.

1. To have or gain controlling power or influence; prevail: Good predominates over evil in many literary works.

2. To be of or have greater quantity or importance; preponderate: French-speaking people predominate in Quebec.

v.tr.

To dominate or prevail over.

adj. (ə-nət)

Predominant.

[Medieval Latin praedominārī, praedomināt- : Latin prae-, pre- + Latin dominārī, to rule (from dominus, master; see dem- in Indo-European roots).]

pre·dom′i·nate·ly (-nĭt-lē) adv.

pre·dom′i·na′tion n.

pre·dom′i·na′tor n.

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Noun	1.	predomination - the state of being predominant over others predominance, prepotency ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance, control - the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
	2.	predomination - the quality of being more noticeable than anything else; "the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone" predominance noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness, patency - the property of being easy to see and understand

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A thorough characterisation of this specific plasma setup is still subject to current and future projects, but preliminary measurements showed a predomination of NO and OH species in the plasma, thus supporting the hypothesis of nitrogen incorporation.

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He faults the work for the extravagance of its messianism (which he heard echoed in the leftist political rhetoric of the 1960s) yet nevertheless defends the tone of the book as a necessary corrective to bourgeois political predomination in interwar Europe (xviii ff).

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There was a predomination of males (79.1%) in this subgroup compared with non-addicts to alcohol (65.9%, p = 0.05), a higher prevalence of cocaine dependency and a greater frequency of personality disorders in cluster A.

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They explained low urinary levels of hepcidin by the predomination of erythroid signal in the regulation of hepcidin synthesis.

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