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Dominance may refer to:

Social relationships

  • Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
  • Expressions of dominance in human relationships in general
  • Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in a lifestyle context
  • Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations
  • Social dominance orientation, a personality trait
  • Abusive power and control, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person
  • Dual strategies theory, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies

Science

  • Dominance (psychology), assesses a person's characteristic feelings of control and influence over his life circumstances versus feelings of being controlled and influenced by others or events

Biology

  • Dominance (ethology), in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals
  • Dominance (ecology), the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community
  • Dominance (genetics), a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene

Mathematics

  • Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games
  • Stochastic dominance, 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, a style of graph drawing

Other

  • Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language
  • Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution
  • Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy
  • Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes
  • Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation

See also

  • Dominate, mid-to-late Roman Empire order
  • Domination (disambiguation)
  • Dominator (disambiguation)
  • World domination (disambiguation)
  • Social dominance (disambiguation)
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