Dominance may refer to:

Social relationships

Dominance hierarchy In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social animal, social groups interact, creating a ranking system. Dif ...

or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community *

Dominance and submission Dominance and submission (D/s) is a set of behaviors, customs, and rituals involving the submission of one person to another in an erotic episode or lifestyle. It is a subset of BDSM. This form of sexual contact and pleasure has been shown to ...

, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context * Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations *

Social dominance orientation Social dominance orientation (SDO) is a personality trait measuring an individual's support for social hierarchy and the extent to which they desire their in-group be superior to out-groups. SDO is conceptualized under social dominance theory a ...

, a personality trait *

Abusive power and control Controlling behavior in relationships are behaviors exhibited by an individual who seeks to gain and maintain control over another person. Abusers may utilize tactics such as intimidation or coercion, and may seek personal gain, personal gratific ...

, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person *

Dual strategies theory In evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology, dual strategies theory states humans increase their status in social hierarchies using two major strategies known as dominance and prestige. * The first and oldest of the two strategies, do ...

, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies

Biology

Dominance (ethology) In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system. Different types ...

, in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals *

Dominance (ecology) Ecological dominance is the degree to which one or several species have a major influence controlling the other species in their Community (ecology), ecological community (because of their large size, population, productivity, or related factor ...

, the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community *

Dominance (genetics) In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome. The first variant is termed dominant and ...

, a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene

Mathematics

Strategic dominance In game theory, a strategy ''A'' dominates another strategy ''B'' if ''A'' will always produce a better result than ''B'', regardless of how any other player plays. Some very simple games (called straightforward games) can be solved using domi ...

, a method of simplification for games *

Stochastic dominance Stochastic dominance is a Partially ordered set, partial order between random variables. It is a form of stochastic ordering. The concept arises in decision theory and decision analysis in situations where one gamble (a probability distribution ov ...

, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences * Dominance order, a partial order *

Dominance drawing Dominance drawing is a style of graph drawing of directed acyclic graphs that makes the reachability relations between vertices visually apparent. In dominance drawing, vertices are placed at distinct points of the Euclidean plane and a vertex ''v ...

, a style of graph drawing

Other

* Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language *

Dominance (economics) Market dominance is the control of a economic market by a firm. A dominant firm possesses the power to affect competition and influence market price. A firms' dominance is a measure of the power of a brand, product, service, or firm, relat ...

, in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution *

Dominatrix A dominatrix ( ; or dominatrices ), or domme, is a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities. The BDSM practice is called female dominance, or femdom. A dominatrix can be of any sexual orientation, but this does not necessarily l ...

, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities *

, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy *

Dominance (linguistics) In generative grammar and related frameworks, a node in a parse tree c-commands its sister node and all of its sister's descendants. In these frameworks, c-command plays a central role in defining and constraining operations such as syntactic movem ...

, a relationship between syntactic nodes * Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation *

Male dominance (BDSM) Male dominance, or maledom is a BDSM practice where the dominant (BDSM), dominant partner is male. A sexually dominant male in BDSM practices is also known as a maledom. Maledoms can be professional as well as non-professional. The term ProDom is ...

, BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male

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