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Domination or dominant may refer to:
Society
[edit]- World domination, structure where one dominant power governs the planet
- Colonialism in which one group (usually a nation) invades another region for material gain or to eliminate competition
- Chauvinism in which a person or group consider themselves to be superior, and thus entitled to use force to dominate others
- Sexual dominance involving individuals in a subset of BDSM behaviour
- Hierarchy
Music
[edit]- Dominant (music), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory
Albums
[edit]- Domination (Cannonball Adderley album) or the title track, 1965
- Domination (Morbid Angel album), 1995
- Domination, by Domino, 2004
- Domination, by Morifade, 2004
Songs
[edit]- "Domination" (song), by Pantera, 1990
- "Domination", by Band-Maid from World Domination, 2018
- "Domination", by Symphony X from Paradise Lost, 2007
- "Domination", by Way Out West from Way Out West, 1996
- "Domination", by Within the Ruins from Black Heart, 2020
Games
[edit]- Domination (chess), where a chess piece with wide movement cannot avoid capture
- Domination (video game), a turn-based computer game
- Domination (poker), a way of rating a poker hand
- Domination, also known as Focus, a 1964 game designed by Sid Sackson
- Domination (role-playing game), a tabletop role-playing game
- DomiNations, a 2015 mobile strategy game
Science
[edit]- Dominant wind, winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on the Earth's surface
- Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes
Biology
[edit]- Dominance (genetics), one allele is expressed over a second allele at the same locus
- Footedness, the natural preference of one's left or right foot
- Handedness, a better performance or preference for use of a hand
- Ocular dominance, the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other
- Dominance (ecology), the degree to which a taxon is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community
Mathematics
[edit]- Dominating decision rule, in decision theory
- Domination number, in graph theory
- Dominant maps, in rational mapping
- Dominated convergence theorem, application of function domination in measure theory
- Dominating set, in graph theory
Other uses
[edit]- Domination (angel), in Christian angelology
- The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling
- Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle
See also
[edit]- Britney: Domination, a 2019 Las Vegas residency concert by Britney Spears
- Dominance (disambiguation)
- Dominator (disambiguation)
- Male dominance (disambiguation)