Dominance may refer to:
Social relationships
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Dominance hierarchy
In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social animal, social groups interact, creating a ranking system. Dif ...
or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
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Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context
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Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations
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Social dominance orientation, a personality trait
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Abusive power and control, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person
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Dual strategies theory
In evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology, dual strategies theory states humans increase their status in social hierarchies using two major strategies known as dominance and prestige.
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, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies
Biology
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Dominance (ethology), in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals
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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 of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community
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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 ...
, a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene
Mathematics
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Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games
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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
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Dominance order, a partial order
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Dominance drawing, a style of graph drawing
Other
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Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language
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Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution
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Dominatrix, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities
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Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy
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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
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Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation
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Male dominance (BDSM), BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male
See also
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Dominate
The Dominate is a periodisation of the Roman Empire during late antiquity
Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was p ...
, mid-to-late Roman Empire order
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Domination (disambiguation)
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Dominator (disambiguation)
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World domination (disambiguation)
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Social dominance (disambiguation)
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