{{wiktionary|domination|dominant}} {{wikiquote}} '''Domination''' or '''dominant''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}

==Society== * World domination, structure where one dominant power governs the planet * Colonialism in which one group (usually a nation) invades another region for material gain or to eliminate competition * Chauvinism in which a person or group consider themselves to be superior, and thus entitled to use force to dominate others * Sexual dominance involving individuals in a subset of BDSM behaviour * Hierarchy

==Music== * Dominant (music), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory

===Albums=== * ''Domination'' (Cannonball Adderley album) or the title track, 1965 * ''Domination'' (Morbid Angel album), 1995 * ''Domination'', by Domino, 2004 * ''Domination'', by Morifade, 2004

===Songs=== * "Domination" (song), by Pantera, 1990 * "Domination", by Band-Maid from ''World Domination'', 2018 * "Domination", by Symphony X from ''Paradise Lost'', 2007 * "Domination", by Way Out West from ''Way Out West'', 1996 * "Domination", by Within the Ruins from ''Black Heart'', 2020

==Games== * Domination (chess), where a chess piece with wide movement cannot avoid capture * ''Domination'' (video game), a turn-based computer game * Domination (poker), a way of rating a poker hand * ''Domination'', also known as ''Focus'', a 1964 board game designed by Sid Sackson * ''Domination'' (role-playing game), a tabletop role-playing game * ''Domination'' (play-by-mail game) * ''DomiNations'', a 2015 mobile strategy game

==Science== * Dominant wind, winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on the Earth's surface * Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes

===Biology=== * Dominance (genetics), one allele is expressed over a second allele at the same locus * Footedness, the natural preference of one's left or right foot * Handedness, a better performance or preference for use of a hand * Ocular dominance, the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other * Dominance (ecology), the degree to which a taxon is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community

===Mathematics=== * Dominating decision rule, in decision theory * Domination number, in graph theory * Dominant maps, in rational mapping * Dominated convergence theorem, application of function domination in measure theory * Dominating set, in graph theory

==Other uses== * Domination (angel), in Christian angelology * The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling * Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle

==See also== * Britney: Domination, a 2019 Las Vegas residency concert by Britney Spears * Dominance (disambiguation) * Dominator (disambiguation) * Male dominance (disambiguation)

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