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dominance

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Etymology

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    From dominant + -ance.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    dominance (countable and uncountable, plural dominances)

    1. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
      • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
        But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.
      • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
        Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.
    2. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
      • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC:
        Shepard: Too many lives were lost at that base. I'm not sorry it's gone.
        Illusive Man: The first of many lives.
        Illusive Man: The technology from that base could have secured human dominance in the galaxy. Against the Reapers and beyond.
    3. A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another.
    4. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
    5. (biology, genetics) of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.

    Derived terms

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    Translations

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    superior development or preference for one side of the body or for one of a pair of organs

    French

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /dɔ.mi.nɑ̃s/
    • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
    • Hyphenation: do‧mi‧nance

    Noun

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    dominance f (plural dominances)

    1. dominance

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