Domination or dominant may refer to:

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)