dominances
- 1Plural of dominance.
Ecologists mapped the shifting dominances among coral species on the reef.
The survey recorded the relative dominances of each tree species across the plots.
Note
A plural that makes sense only once dominance is counted rather than held as a single quality. Supremacy and power over others are usually spoken of in the mass, so the plural is uncommon there. It is more at home in biology, where kinds can be compared: the complete and incomplete dominances of alleles, or the separate dominances of one hand, or of one organ in a pair, over the other.
dominances is a form of dominance
dominance, noun: The position of holding power, authority, or ascendancy over other people or groups. Full entry
- Forms
- dominancedominances plural
- Spelling
- dominance → dominances: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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