Domination or dominant may refer to:

Society

World domination World domination (also called global domination, world conquest, global conquest, or cosmocracy) is a hypothetical power structure, either achieved or aspired to, in which a single political authority holds power over all or virtually all the i ...

, structure where one dominant power governs the planet *

Colonialism Colonialism is the control of another territory, natural resources and people by a foreign group. Colonizers control the political and tribal power of the colonised territory. While frequently an Imperialism, imperialist project, colonialism c ...

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. The ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' describes it ...

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 Ancient Greek, 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 ...

Music

Dominant (music) In music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present ...

, 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 Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ''ends''. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called '' pips'' or ''dots'' ...

, 2004 * ''Domination'', by Morifade, 2004

Songs

* "Domination" (song), by Pantera, 1990 * "Domination", by Band-Maid from ''

World Domination World domination (also called global domination, world conquest, global conquest, or cosmocracy) is a hypothetical power structure, either achieved or aspired to, in which a single political authority holds power over all or virtually all the i ...

'', 2018 * "Domination", by Symphony X from ''

Paradise Lost ''Paradise Lost'' is an Epic poetry, epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the Bible, biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their ex ...

'', 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 In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a type of chess problem that starts with a composed position—i.e. one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—where the g ...

, where a chess piece with wide movement cannot avoid capture * ''Domination'' (video game), a turn-based computer game *

Domination (poker) Poker Poker is a family of Card game#Comparing games, comparing card games in which Card player, players betting (poker), wager over which poker hand, hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, with varying r ...

, 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'', 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 t ...

, 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 ...

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

Footedness In human biology, 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 o ...

, 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 and causing it to be stronger, faster or more Fine motor skill, dextrous. The other hand, comparatively often the weaker, less dext ...

, 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 t ...

, 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 Community (ecology), ecological community (because of their large size, population, productivity, or related factor ...

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

Mathematics

Dominating decision rule In decision theory, a decision rule is said to dominate another if the performance of the former is sometimes better, and never worse, than that of the latter. Formally, let \delta_1 and \delta_2 be two decision rules, and let R(\theta, \delta) b ...

, in decision theory *

Domination number Domination or dominant may refer to: Society * World domination, structure where one dominant power governs the planet * Colonialism in which one group (usually a nation) invades another region for material gain or to eliminate competition * Ch ...

, 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 component, irreducible ...

Dominated convergence theorem In measure theory, Lebesgue's dominated convergence theorem gives a mild sufficient condition under which limits and integrals of a sequence of functions can be interchanged. More technically it says that if a sequence of functions is bounded i ...

, application of function domination in measure theory *

Dominating set In graph theory, a dominating set for a Graph (discrete mathematics), graph is a subset of its vertices, such that any vertex of is in , or has a neighbor in . The domination number is the number of vertices in a smallest dominating set for ...

, in graph theory

Other uses

* Domination (angel), in Christian angelology * The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling * Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle