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 relig ...

in which one group (usually a nation) invades another region for material gain or to eliminate competition *

Chauvinism Chauvinism is the unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak, unworthy, or inferior. It can be described as a form of extreme patriotis ...

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 A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...

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 "S ...

, a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory

Albums

* ''Domination'' (Cannonball Adderley album) or the title track, 1965 * ''Domination'' (Morbid Angel album), 1995 * ''Domination'', by Domino, 2004 * ''Domination'', by Morifade, 2004

Songs

* "Domination" (song), by Pantera, 1990 * "Domination", by Band-Maid from '' World Domination'', 2018 * "Domination", by Symphony X from ''

Paradise Lost ''Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse (poetry), verse. A second edition fo ...

'', 2007 * "Domination", by Way Out West from '' Way Out West'', 1996 * "Domination", by Within the Ruins from '' Black Heart'', 2020

Games

Domination (chess) In chess, and particularly in endgame studies, domination occurs when a player controls all movement squares of an enemy piece. Examples This position occurred in the game Beliavsky– Korchnoi, György Marx Memorial, 2004. White blundered with ...

, 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 buil ...

'', 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 on ...

, 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) 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 t ...

, one allele is expressed over a second allele at the same locus *

Footedness Footedness is the natural preference of one's left or right foot for various purposes. It is the foot equivalent of handedness. While purposes vary, such as applying the greatest force in a certain foot to complete the action of kick as opposed to ...

, the natural preference of one's left or right foot *

Handedness In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more Fine motor skill, dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, less dextrous or sim ...

, 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 perception, 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 d ...

, 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 o ...

, the degree to which a taxon is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community

Mathematics

Dominating decision rule In decision theory Decision theory (or the theory of choice; not to be confused with choice theory) is a branch of applied probability theory concerned with the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and ...

, 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 de ...

* Dominated convergence theorem, application of function domination in measure theory * Dominating set, in graph 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 * The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling * Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle