# Domination

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

==Music==
* [Dominant (music)](/source/Dominant_(music)), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory

===Albums===
* [''Domination'' (Cannonball Adderley album)](/source/Domination_(Cannonball_Adderley_album)) or the title track, 1965
* [''Domination'' (Morbid Angel album)](/source/Domination_(Morbid_Angel_album)), 1995
* ''Domination'', by [Domino](/source/Domino_(rapper)), 2004
* ''Domination'', by [Morifade](/source/Morifade), 2004

===Songs===
* ["Domination" (song)](/source/Domination_(song)), by Pantera, 1990
* "Domination", by Band-Maid from ''[World Domination](/source/World_Domination_(Band-Maid_album))'', 2018
* "Domination", by Symphony X from ''[Paradise Lost](/source/Paradise_Lost_(Symphony_X_album))'', 2007
* "Domination", by Way Out West from ''[Way Out West](/source/Way_Out_West_(Way_Out_West_album))'', 1996
* "Domination", by Within the Ruins from ''[Black Heart](/source/Black_Heart_(Within_the_Ruins_album))'', 2020

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

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

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

===Mathematics===
* [Dominating decision rule](/source/Dominating_decision_rule), in decision theory
* [Domination number](/source/Domination_number), in graph theory
* Dominant maps, in [rational mapping](/source/rational_mapping)
* [Dominated convergence theorem](/source/Dominated_convergence_theorem), application of function domination in measure theory
* [Dominating set](/source/Dominating_set), in graph theory

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

==See also==
* [Britney: Domination](/source/Britney%3A_Domination), a 2019 Las Vegas residency concert by Britney Spears
* [Dominance (disambiguation)](/source/Dominance_(disambiguation))
* [Dominator (disambiguation)](/source/Dominator_(disambiguation))
* [Male dominance (disambiguation)](/source/Male_dominance_(disambiguation))

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