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Domination
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- 1 Control by means of superior ability, influence, position, or resources; prevailing force. countable, uncountable
"First, relations of power and domination have been and continue to be significantly constitutive of social relations in modern societies."
- 2 social control by dominating wordnet
- 3 The exercise of power in ruling; sovereignty; authority; government. countable, uncountable
"[...] thou and thine vſurpe / The Dominations, Royalties, and rights / Of this oppreſſed boy; [...]"
- 4 power to dominate or defeat wordnet
- 5 A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy. countable, uncountable
"Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers."
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- 6 A fetish characterized by control and power over and discipline of one's sexual partner. countable, uncountable
"By night, I am Mistress Shay Noir, the Black queen of domination. The world's most beautiful sadist."
- 7 Synonym of cover. countable, uncountable
"With more than 200 research papers published on the algorithmic complexity of domination and related parameters of graphs, it is difficult to know what to cover in a relatively short chapter on the subject, especially since it could take quite a few pages just to cover the preliminaries of computational complexity and the many algorithm design paradigms that have been applied to domination problems."
Etymology
From Middle English domynacion, from Old French dominacion, from Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”); see dominate.
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