dominance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

   Their dominance over us made us resentful.

2. 2
   noun

   The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.

   But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.

3. 3
   noun

   Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.

   Shepard: Too many lives were lost at that base. I'm not sorry it's gone. Illusive Man: The first of many lives. Illusive Man: The technology from that base could have secured human dominance in the galaxy. Against the Reapers and beyond.

4. 4
   noun

   superior development of one side of the body

5. 5
   noun

   the power or right to give orders or make decisions

6. 6
   noun

   the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

7. 7
   noun

   The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.

8. 8
   noun

   of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.

Etymology

From dominant + -ance.