domination

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Control by means of superior ability, influence, position, or resources; prevailing force.

   First, relations of power and domination have been and continue to be significantly constitutive of social relations in modern societies.

2. 2
   noun

   The exercise of power in ruling; sovereignty; authority; government.

   [...] thou and thine vſurpe / The Dominations, Royalties, and rights / Of this oppreſſed boy; [...]

3. 3
   noun

   A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.

   Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

4. 4
   noun

   A fetish characterized by control and power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.

   By night, I am Mistress Shay Noir, the Black queen of domination. The world's most beautiful sadist.

5. 5
   noun

   Synonym of cover.

   With more than 200 research papers published on the algorithmic complexity of domination and related parameters of graphs, it is difficult to know what to cover in a relatively short chapter on the subject, especially since it could take quite a few pages just to cover the preliminaries of computational complexity and the many algorithm design paradigms that have been applied to domination problems.

6. 6
   noun

   social control by dominating

7. 7
   noun

   power to dominate or defeat

Etymology

From Middle English domynacion, from Old French dominacion, from Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”); see dominate.