Domination or dominant may refer to:

Society

* World domination, which is mainly a conspiracy theory *

Colonialism Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their reli ...

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 * Hierarchy * Patriarchy

Music

Dominant (music) In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree () of the diatonic scale. It is called the ''dominant'' because it is second in importance to the first scale degree, the tonic. In the movable do solfège system, the dominant note is sung as " ...

, 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'' * "Domination", a song by Within the Ruins from '' Black Heart''

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 ''DomiNations'' is a 2015 freemium mobile massively multiplayer strategy video game developed and published by Big Huge Games. The game was released on April 1, 2015. Gameplay ''DomiNations'' is a massively multiplayer online game. Players bui ...

'', a 2015 mobile strategy game

Science

Dominant wind In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction. The dominant winds are the trends in direction of wind with the highest speed over a particular point o ...

, winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on the Earth's surface *

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

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 Ocular dominance, sometimes called eye preference or eyedness, is the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other. It is somewhat analogous to the laterality of right- or left- handedness; however, the side of the dominant eye and th ...

, the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other *

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

, 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 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 ...

, in graph theory * Dominant maps, in

rational mapping In mathematics, in particular the subfield of algebraic geometry, a rational map or rational mapping is a kind of partial function between algebraic varieties. This article uses the convention that varieties are irreducible. Definition Formal ...

* Dominated convergence theorem, application of function domination in measure theory *

Other uses

Domination (angel) In Christianity, angels are the agents of God. Various works of Christian theology have devised hierarchies of angelic beings. The most influential Christian angelic hierarchy was put forward around the turn of the 6th century AD by Pseudo-Di ...

, in Christian angelology * Dominant CZ, a Czech Czech company * The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling * Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle