Domination
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Domination or dominant may refer to:
Society
- World domination which is mainly a conspiracy theory
- 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
Music
- Dominant (music), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory
- Dominant seventh chord, a four-note chord consisting of a major triad and a minor seventh
- Domination (Cannonball Adderley album), 1965
- Domination (Domino album), 2004
- Domination (Morbid Angel album), 1995
- Domination (Morifade album), 2004
- "Domination", a song by Band-Maid from World Domination
- "Domination", a song by Pantera from Cowboys from Hell
- "Domination", a song by Symphony X from Paradise Lost
- "Domination", a song by Way Out West from Way Out West
Games
- 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
- Domination, a gamemode in the Call Of Duty Games
Science
- 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
- 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
- Dominating decision rule, in decision theory
- Domination number, in graph theory
- Dominant maps, in rational mapping
Other uses
- Dominant CZ, a Czech company
- The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling
- Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle
See also
- Britney: Domination, a 2019 Las Vegas residency concert by Britney Spears
- Dominance (disambiguation)
- Dominator (disambiguation)
- Male dominance (disambiguation)