Domination

Domination or dominant may refer to:

Society

 * World domination, which is mainly a conspiracy theory
 * 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 game designed by Sid Sackson
 * Domination (role-playing game), a tabletop role-playing 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