Dominance

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  • noun. The condition or fact of being dominant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • noun. In biology, the visible manifestation by a cross-bred organism and by some of its descendants of one or two mutually antagonistic parental characters to the exclusion of the other.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Predominance; ascendency; authority.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
  • noun. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
  • noun. The superior development or preference for one side of the body or of one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
  • noun. The property of a gene such that it supresses the expression of its allele.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
  • noun. superior development of one side of the body
  • noun. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
  • noun. the power or right to give orders or make decisions
    • Word Usage
    "Their complaints have centred on under-representation and what they called the dominance of the Iranian-backed Shia."
    Equivalent
    dominancy  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bodily property  organic phenomenon  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    predominance  prominence  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    advancement  ascendancy  ascendency  autonomy  collapse  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ascendance  ascendancy  ascendency  authority  authority  
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