# dominance

Pronunciation: US say "DAH-mi-nuhns" /ˈdɑmɪnəns/; say "DOM-i-nuhns" UK /ˈdɒmɪnəns/, AUS /ˈdɔmɪnəns/

## Noun

1. The position of holding power, authority, or ascendancy over other people or groups.
   - Simple: Having more power or control than the people or groups around you.
   - _The team's dominance over its rivals lasted nearly a decade._
   - _She used her dominance within the company to push the new policy through._
2. The state of being most powerful, most important, or supreme among others of its kind.
   - Simple: Being the most powerful or most important thing of its kind.
   - _The dominance of English in international science shows no sign of fading._
   - _Throughout the 1990s, the franchise enjoyed near-total dominance at the box office._
3. The degree to which an allele expresses its phenotype when paired with a different allele, ranging from dominant to recessive.
   - Simple: How strongly one form of a gene shows up when it is paired with a different form.
   - _Mendel's pea experiments revealed clear dominance of the tall allele over the short one._
   - _Incomplete dominance produces pink flowers when red and white alleles are both present._
4. The tendency for one side of the body, or one organ of a pair, to be more developed or more used than the other, as in right-handedness.
   - Simple: When one side of the body, or one of two paired organs, is stronger or used more than the other.
   - _Eye dominance determines which eye a marksman relies on when aiming._
   - _The therapist tested the child's hand dominance before starting writing lessons._

## Origin

Formed from "dominant" combined with the suffix "-ance."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dominance (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).