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Dominance

//ˈdɒmɪnəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    superior development of one side of the body wordnet
  3. 3
    Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    the power or right to give orders or make decisions wordnet
  5. 5
    The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    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 wordnet
  2. 7
    of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    the state that exists when one person or group has power over another wordnet

Etymology

From dominant + -ance.

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