Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, same as submediant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun music The sixth tone of the scale, immediately above the dominant.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ dominant

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  • It's on this generic web search that Google is superdominant, taking 87.5 percent of UK searches against Yahoo's 4.3 percent and Bing's mere 3.6 percent (comScore: Sep '09).

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  • It's on this generic web search that Google is superdominant, taking 87.5 percent of UK searches against Yahoo's 4.3 percent and Bing's mere 3.6 percent (comScore: Sep '09).

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