PREDOMINANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predominance mean? 

• PREDOMINANCE (noun)
  The noun PREDOMINANCE has 2 senses:

1. the state of being predominant over others

2. the quality of being more noticeable than anything else

  Familiarity information: PREDOMINANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDOMINANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being predominant over others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

predominance; predomination; prepotency

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being more noticeable than anything else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

predominance; predomination

Context example:

the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone

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)

 Context examples 

A morphologic variant of follicular carcinoma of the thyroid gland characterized by the predominance of malignant follicular clear cells.

(Clear Cell Variant Thyroid Gland Follicular Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A conventional osteosarcoma characterized by the predominance of osteoid matrix.

(Osteoblastic Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The progression of a myelodysplastic syndrome in which there is erythroid predominance into erythroleukemia (M6a or erythroleukemia, erythroid/myeloid).

(Di Guglielmo Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A WHO grade II, usually recurring meningioma characterized by the predominance of tissues that are histologically similar to chordoma.

(Chordoid Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Wilms tumor of the kidney characterized by the predominance of the epithelial component.

(Epithelial Predominant Renal Wilms Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

There is a female predominance among those affected.

(Acroparesthesia Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A well differentiated morphologic variant of lung adenocarcinoma characterized by the predominance of clear cells.

(Lung Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of large cell lung carcinoma characterized by a predominance of clear cells that may or may not contain glycogen.

(Large Cell Lung Carcinoma, Clear Cell Variant, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare morphologic variant of gallbladder adenocarcinoma composed of malignant glandular epithelium with a predominance of glycogen rich clear cells.

(Gallbladder Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign, borderline, or malignant surface epithelial-stromal tumor of the ovary that is characterized by a predominance of clear and hobnail cells.

(Ovarian Clear Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)