Intel, whose chips are the dominant standard in personal computers, is high priest of a chip technology known as CISC.

Still, Microsoft succeeded in setting the dominant standard in personal computer operating software.

Compact chainrings are the dominant standard for mountain bike cranks for the past decade or so.

"We believe C.D.M.A. will eventually become the dominant standard for transmitting wireless data," he said.

Showing off Apple's special software to do all those things is essential to attracting first-time computer users or winning converts from the dominant standard, Microsoft's Windows.

Thus it is difficult, but not impossible, to topple a firm that has established a dominant standard.

Prior to Daubert, relevancy in combination with the Frye test were the dominant standards for determining the admissibility of scientific evidence in Federal courts.

That means that dominant standards that are developed outside Europe also influence production.

He wrote that subcultures can be perceived as negative due to their nature of criticism to the dominant societal standard.

Its recorders have become the dominant standard for broadcasters worldwide.