Dominance

Dominance may refer to:

Social relationships

 * Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
 * Expressions of dominance in human relationships in general
 * Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context
 * Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations
 * Social dominance orientation, a personality trait
 * Abusive power and control, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person
 * Dual strategies theory, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies

Science

 * Dominance (psychology), assesses a person's characteristic feelings of control and influence over their life circumstances versus feelings of being controlled and influenced by others or events

Biology

 * Dominance (ethology), in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals
 * Dominance (ecology), the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community
 * Dominance (genetics), a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene

Mathematics

 * Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games
 * Stochastic dominance, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences
 * Dominance order, a partial order
 * Dominance drawing, a style of graph drawing

Other

 * Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language
 * Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution
 * Dominatrix, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities
 * Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy
 * Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes
 * Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation
 * Male dominance (BDSM), BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male