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superdominant

superdominant adjective: having an overwhelming proportion of market share, so as to be almost a monopoly.

Adjective

superdominant (comparative more superdominant, superlative most superdominant)

  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.2006, Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, Isabela Atanasiu, European Competition Law Annual 2003, →ISBN
    • According to O'Donoghue & Padilla (2006) 168–69, the concept of superdominance is problematic, given that there is no objective economic test that makes it possible to define when a company is superdominant and its behaviour should be subjected to greater scrutiny.2011, Luis Ortiz Blanco, Market Power in EU Antitrust Law, →ISBN, page 50
  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.1982, Annual Review of Jazz Studies - Volume 1, page 150
    • The face becomes superdominant, the eye subdominant, but nothing is properly predominant.2012, L. Aschenbrenner, The Concept of Coherence in Art, →ISBN, page 24
  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.1999, James Gray, Journal of Experimental Biology - Volume 202, Issue 23, page 3503
    • In the competition-dependent alternatives of a social insect colony or a lek, the frequency of dominant individuals need only be one to make subordinate alternatives more advantageous, and the frequency of dominant behavior may only vary between one (when the superdominant position of queen or...2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, →ISBN
  4. 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.2002, Tom Monahan, The Do-It-Yourself Lobotomy, →ISBN, page 195
    • 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.2012, Desmond Morris, Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language, →ISBN
  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.1992, Soviet Genetics - Volume 28, Issues 1-6, page 820
    • Suppose a “superdominant” Y chromosome arose that could not be feminized by X*.2009, Robert Trivers, Austin Burt, Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements, →ISBN, page 87
  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.2008, Antoni Bayés de Luna, Miquel Fiol-Sala, Elliot M. Antman, The 12 Lead ECG in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, →ISBN, page 66
    • 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.2007, James T Willerson, Jay N. Cohn, Hein J.J. Wellens, Cardiovascular Medicine, →ISBN, page 774
  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.1981, Sustained Yield Unit 13, Timber Management
    • A few large dominant or superdominant trees should be left as potential nest trees.1986, Jeffrey W. Grimm, Richard H. Yahner, Status and Management of Select Species of Avifauna in Pannsylvania with an Emphasis on Raptors
  8. (decision theory) Comprising the winning strategy in all cases.
    • In decision-theoretical tenns, therefore, to believe in God is superdominant over disbelieving.2009, Peter Hedström, Peter Bearman, The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology, →ISBN

Noun

superdominant (plural superdominants)

  1. The sixth tone of the scale, immediately above the dominant.
    Synonyms:
    submediant
  2. 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.1975, William R. Burch, Beyond Growth: Essays on Alternative Futures, page 76
    • The earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi is also a typical superdominant of tundra cenoses.1997, F. E. Wielgolaski, Polar and Alpine Tundra - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 405

Examples of superdominant in a sentence

  • 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.2009, Donald Dickmann, David D. Glenn, Forestry Field Studies: A Manual for Science Teachers, →ISBN, page 39:
  • 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 total2008, Annales Zoologici - Volume 58, Issues 1-2, page 270:

Synonyms of superdominant

Forms of superdominant

Adjective
comparativemore superdominant
superlativemost superdominant
Noun
pluralsuperdominants

Origin of superdominant

From super- + dominant.

Questions about superdominant

What does superdominant mean?
Superdominant means having an overwhelming proportion of market share, so as to be almost a monopoly.
How do you use superdominant in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is superdominant?
Superdominant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near superdominant in the dictionary

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