Domination or dominant may refer to:

Society

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

, 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 colony, colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose the ...

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

'' * " Domination", a song by Pantera from ''

Cowboys from Hell ''Cowboys from Hell'' is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on July 24, 1990 by Atco Records. It marked the band's major label debut and their first collaboration with producer Terry Date. This was also the al ...

'' * "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) 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) Poker hand A is said to dominate poker hand B if poker hand B has three or fewer outs (cards to catch) that would improve it enough to win. Informally, domination is sometimes used to refer to any situation where one hand is highly likely to beat a ...

, 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, winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on the Earth's surface * Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes

Biology

* Dominance (genetics), 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, 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 the ...

, 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, 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, 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 In measure theory, Lebesgue's dominated convergence theorem provides sufficient conditions under which almost everywhere convergence of a sequence of functions implies convergence in the ''L''1 norm. Its power and utility are two of the primary t ...

, application of function domination in measure theory *

Other uses

* Domination (angel), in Christian angelology * Dominant CZ, a Czech Czech company *

The Domination ''The Domination of the Draka'' (also called the Draka series or the Draka saga) is a dystopian science fiction alternate history series by American author S. M. Stirling. It comprises a main trilogy of novels as well as one crossover novel ...

, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling *

Dominance and submission Dominance and submission (also called 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 bee ...

, in an erotic episode or lifestyle