dominant element

collocation in English

meaningsofdominantandelement

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dominant
adjective
uk
/ˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/us
/ˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofdominantandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The city itself is adominantelementwithin literature and film.
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It would have been an importantdominantelement, reflecting in its form the development, process of the city structure.
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Anotherdominantelementin the food index is dairy produce.
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Symptom relief from functional dyspepsia can be achieved by antacids when the problems have adominantelementof reflux of acid into the esophagus.
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Yet to what extent was the community at large actually involved in the decision-making here, as opposed to a more limited butdominantelementwithin it?
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Compensation payments, now thedominantelementof expenditure on the arable sector, are instead dependent on previous yields and current arable area and should thus be more stable.
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Fear of persecution is no longer thedominantelementfor many asylum seekers.
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The sea is itsdominantelement.
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Adominantelementwas the intellectual angle they took.
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The office tower is thedominantelementof the complex.
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The appropriate species name depends on thedominantelement.
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Federalism was always in the original treaties but it was a recessive rather than adominantelement.
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Fishing, while still adominantelementin the local economy, is not as dominant as it used to be.
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The argument for inflation targeting seems to me the stronger and should replace monetary targeting as thedominantelementin some form of hybrid strategy.
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If this process is not checked, the school will ultimately become a school in which thedominantelementwill be fee paying.
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Most accounts of gut contents have identified coniferous twigs as thedominantelementin their diet.
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Thedominantelementis usually at least 1,000 times more abundant than all other elements.
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Thedominantelementin these buildings, was the tiled roof supported by timber beams and rafters.
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But some existing boroughs will be grouped with other authorities to form new districts, and in many cases they will not necessarily be thedominantelementin the new district.
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Some existing boroughs will be grouped with other authorities to form new districts and in many cases they will not necessarily be thedominantelementin the new district.
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In the navy the battleship, long seen as thedominantelementof sea power, was displaced by the greater range and striking power of the aircraft carrier.
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One of the early ideas was to form the station building porticos to highlight the driveway and enlarge the scale of thedominantelementof the facade.
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Hence, the special case of balancing the neutral colors (sometimes "gray balance", "neutral balance", or "white balance") is a particularly important perhapsdominantelementof color balancing.
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It is mostly applied informally to compositions between about 20-80% gold and 20-80% silver atoms, but is strictly called gold or silver depending on thedominantelement.
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