0 present participle of predominate
1 to be the largest in number or the most important:
In industrial areas, the dark-coloured variety of the moth now predominates.
Most of the nonocular symptoms were of a neurological nature, with intracranial calcifications predominating.
Across the four countries, on average 2.8 reasons were given with life-style and environmental attributes predominating (on average, 1.4 reasons).
Here the predominating view outlined above has a strong basis.
In other waterfowl surveyed, very few echinostomes were found, with juveniles predominating.
From around 1850 onwards, the number of factories increased, with chemical, textile and cigar-making industries predominating.
The organization of the very spontaneous and sociable interactions described here was often quite different from that predominating in more focused, task-oriented settings.
Those spellings consisted of a variety of more idiosyncratic spelling patterns, with no obvious pattern predominating.
All the major phospholipid classes have also been identified in adult filarial worms, phosphatidylcholine being the predominating one.
