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dominance
/ˈdɑmɪnəns/
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What does dominance mean?
noun
- The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
- Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
- A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another.
More meanings (2)
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.
- of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdɑmɪnəns/
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Only why, as he sat there, had he still this strange dominance over her?
It may be due to an increasing dominance of the one or the other of the "lower" ethnic elements in the population.
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Constant political turmoil and continued dominance of former Communist officials have slowed the process of economic reform and brought near economic collapse while limiting foreign assistance.
The qualities which give an animal, a race, or an individual, a higher utility or social dominance must always be influenced by any change in the environment.
The dominance of this theory marks the era at which our first and third synoptic gospels were composed,--from sixty to ninety years after the death of Jesus.