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PREDOMINANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being more noticeable than anything else
Example:
the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone
Synonyms:
predominance; predomination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("predominance" is a kind of...):
noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency (the property of being easy to see and understand)
Derivation:
predominant (most frequent or common)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being predominant over others
Synonyms:
predominance; predomination; prepotency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("predominance" is a kind of...):
ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; control; dominance (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another)
Derivation:
predominant (having superior power and influence)
predominate (be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance)
Context examples:
A morphologic variant of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland characterized by the predominance of malignant follicular clear cells.
(Clear Cell Variant Thyroid Gland Papillary Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by a predominance of clear and hobnail cells.
(Benign Ovarian Clear Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
Wilms tumor of the kidney characterized by the predominance of the blastema component.
(Blastema Predominant Renal Wilms Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
A breast hamartoma characterized by the predominance of a smooth muscle component.
(Breast Myoid Hamartoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A WHO grade III meningioma characterized by the predominance of a perivascular pseudopapillary pattern.
(Papillary Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of paucicellular collagenous tissue, adipocytes and a predominance of large coarse elastic fibers arranged in globules.
(Elastofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)
Giant Cell Glioblastoma is a histological variant of Glioblastoma with a predominance of bizarre, multinucleated giant cells, an occasionally abundant stromal reticulin network and a high frequency of TP53 mutations.
(Mouse Giant Cell Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A rare histological variant of glioblastoma (WHO grade IV) with a predominance of bizarre, multinucleated giant cells, an occasionally abundant stromal reticulin network, and a high frequency of TP53 mutations.
(Giant Cell Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
She tried to recollect some instance of goodness, some distinguished trait of integrity or benevolence, that might rescue him from the attacks of Mr. Darcy; or at least, by the predominance of virtue, atone for those casual errors under which she would endeavour to class what Mr. Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years' continuance.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
