non-dominantadj.
/nɒnˈdɒmᵻnənt/, U.S. /nɑnˈdɑmənənt/ 1. That does not dominate.
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1876 Presbyterian Q. & Princeton Rev. Apr. 208 Let them go..where better privileges are accorded to the non-dominant religion of a people.
1932 Ecology 13 112 Developmental communities..are probably subject to greater fluctuations in total of small non-dominant plants and animals.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 204 The reasons for the persistence of non-dominant languages.
1989 R. Littlewood & M. Lipsedge Aliens & Alienists (ed. 2) xii. 290 An emphasis in American social anthropology on ‘culture’..has led Americans to value more highly the healing practices of non-dominant groups.
2. Biology. Of a hereditary character, allele, or gene: not dominant (dominant adj. 7).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [adjective] > allele > dominant or recessive
recessive1900
non-dominant1917
pseudodominant1958
1917 Bot. Gaz. 63 418 The variations were attributed to the action of multiple, non-dominant, independently segregating factors.
1986 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83 2893/1 mat-1 and mat-2 may be regarded as nondominant, or as codominant alleles, each making an independent contribution to the heterozygous mating type.
3. Of a paired part, organ, or cerebral hemisphere: not dominant over that on the other side of the body.
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1928 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 90 1095 The condition is believed to be a physiological variant due to the persistence of the activity of the non-dominant cerebral hemisphere.
1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 87 92 Ring electrodes were slipped onto two fingers of the subject's nondominant hand.
1993 Family Therapy Networker Sept. 58/3 Because I am having unilateral ECT, several electrodes will be placed over the temporal region of my nondominant hemisphere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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