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PRONUNCIATION OF PREPOTENCY

prepotency  [prɪˈpəʊtənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREPOTENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prepotency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PREPOTENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prepotency in the English dictionary

The first definition of prepotency in the dictionary is the state or condition of being prepotent. Other definition of prepotency is the ability of one parent to transmit more characteristics to its offspring than the other parent. Prepotency is also the ability of pollen from one source to bring about fertilization more readily than that from other sources.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREPOTENCY


accountancy
əˈkaʊntənsɪ
captaincy
ˈkæptənsɪ
chieftaincy
ˈtʃiːftənsɪ
competency
ˈkɒmpɪtənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
constancy
ˈkɒnstənsɪ
consultancy
kənˈsʌltənsɪ
executancy
ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtənsɪ
expectancy
ɪkˈspɛktənsɪ
hesitancy
ˈhɛzɪtənsɪ
impotency
ˈɪmpətənsɪ
inconsistency
ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsɪ
inconstancy
ɪnˈkɒnstənsɪ
intermittency
ˌɪntəˈmɪtənsɪ
irritancy
ˈɪrɪtənsɪ
latency
ˈleɪtənsɪ
militancy
ˈmɪlɪtənsɪ
patency
ˈpeɪtənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
subpotency
sʌbˈpəʊtənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREPOTENCY

prepose
preposition
prepositional
prepositional phrase
prepositionally
prepositive
prepositively
prepositor
prepossess
prepossessing
prepossessingly
prepossessingness
prepossession
preposterous
preposterously
preposterousness
prepostor
prepotence
prepotent
prepotently

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREPOTENCY

advertency
agency
appetency
currency
efficiency
emergency
frequency
inadvertency
inappetency
incompetency
inexistency
insistency
omnipotency
penitency
plenipotency
remittency
renitency
tendency
totipotency
transparency

Synonyms and antonyms of prepotency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prepotency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREPOTENCY

Find out the translation of prepotency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prepotency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prepotency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

优生优育
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prepotencia
570 millions of speakers

English

prepotency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prepotency
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مكنة مسبقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

prepotency
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prepotência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prepotency
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prépotence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prepotency
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Überwiegen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prepotency
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prepotency
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prepotency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự có quyền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prepotency
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रिपिन्सी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

baskınlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prepotenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prepotency
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

prepotency
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prepotency
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

την υπεροχή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prepotency
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prepotency
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prepotency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prepotency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPOTENCY»

The term «prepotency» is used very little and occupies the 155.599 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPOTENCY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prepotency

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREPOTENCY»

Discover the use of prepotency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prepotency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Psychology A2: The Complete Companion
The main value of the explanations - ancient fears, prepotency . ird preparedness - is that they can all explain the uneven distribution of phobias, i.e. that some fears are more common than others. Prepotency Ohman and Soares (1994) ...
Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan, 2003
2
The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding ...
The dominance of particular stallions is interpreted by the bloodstock industry as evidence of 'prepotency', the belief that certain stallions are able to 'stamp' their offspring who then bear a strong resemblance to their sire. It is a continually ...
Rebecca Cassidy, 2002
3
Animal Breeding: Principles and Practice in the Philippine ...
In animal production, inbreeding can be utilized to increase the prepotency of an individual, to detect lethal genes to evaluate an individual before forming a breeding program around the individual, to achieve concentrated use of a genetically ...
Orville L. Bondoc, 2008
4
A Zola dictionary
Prepotency ol his mother. Innateuess with regard to physical resemblance. 13. LISA MACQUART. born in 1827. married in 1652 to Oiu'iui, a healthy man with a well- balanced mind. Bears him a daughter. dies iu 1863 from decomposition of ...
J. G. Patterson, 1973
5
The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from ...
If prepotency came before sterility, then we have a path that natural selection could have adopted: 'as the prepotency became stronger through natural selection, from being advantageous to a species in the process of formation, so the sterility ...
Helena Cronin, 1993
6
Variation in Animals and Plants.
proportion of 6 to 5. Whatever the degree of prepotency of one parent over another — and with similarly bred stocks it is probably never very great — we must conclude that the average contribution of both parents together still remains at a half ...
H.M. Vernon, 1990
7
Social Neuroscience and Public Health: Foundations for the ...
Likewise, increasing prepotency of desirable health behaviors can be accomplished by saturating the environment with behaviorrelevant cues, making environmental characteristics similar in settings where the behavior is desired, and making ...
Peter A. Hall, 2013
8
The grammar of science
We may here argue for prepotency of the female in coat-colour. The average of both is fairly close to the .3 of theory. If we look at the grandsire and offspring we find an average intensity of .106, while the grand-dam and offspring yield the ...
Karl Pearson
9
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
This case well shows the wide difference between inheritance and prepotency ; for here we have a well-established old race which transmits its characters faithfully, but which, when crossed with any other race, has the feeblest power of  ...
Charles Darwin, 1868
10
The Psychology of Quality of Life
they reflect affective experiences related to satisfaction of other needs. For example, many think I am aware that need-based theories have been criticised in relation to the need prepotency notion, i.e., the assumption that lower-order needs ...
M. Joseph Sirgy, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREPOTENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prepotency is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Sparkman: Success of Riveting Drama hard to fathom
... a pattern that occurs with notorious frequency in the pedigrees of top sires and broodmares, especially those whose prepotency is otherwise ... «Daily Racing Form, Jul 15»
2
Sweeney Optimistic After Roller Coaster Week For Bruins
It's hard to score in the NHL and they're both guys who have shown the prepotency to go into the difficult areas and have good releases on their ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
3
Hoofprints of history at Morgan Horse Farm
Figure's prepotency essentially created the Morgan type and all Morgan horses can eventually be traced to him. He died in 1821 at around 32 ... «BurlingtonFreePress.com, Jun 15»
4
Warriors World Q+A: NBA Finals Preview
Thompson has the prepotency to go quiet during games, either by chucking up ill-advised shots or turning the ball over. Still, the threat of ... «Warriors World, Jun 15»
5
Maslow's Hierarchy: Separating Fact From Fiction
... realistic description of the hierarchy would be in terms of decreasing percentages of satisfaction as we go up the hierarchy of prepotency. «ATD, Jun 15»
6
Louisville Basketball: Meet strength and conditioning coach Ray …
Given Louisville's prepotency to play pressure defense and transition offense, Ganong's fitness development has proven to be pivotal and ... «isportsweb.com, Feb 15»
7
Nurses team with medics for training, deployment
I'm hoping that the medevac prepotency and the School of Aviation Medicine get together and come up with a codified training solution to ... «The Fort Campbell Courier, Jan 15»
8
Why Obama's Whig History Is All Wrong
... currently enjoy is the product not of the West's moral dominance, but of the prepotency first of the British Empire and then — after a seamless ... «National Review Online, Sep 14»
9
The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
This prepotency became especially pronounced after the Six Day War of 1967. Consider the annexations and settlements; occupation and ... «CounterPunch, Aug 14»
10
Permeation of the Fascist Mindset
... freedom, and social justice (never earned or justified in practice), all combined—the shadow of military prepotency hanging over the whole, ... «CounterPunch, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prepotency [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prepotency>. Apr 2024 ».
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