Domination or dominant may refer to:
Society
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World domination, structure where one dominant power governs the planet
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Colonialism in which one group (usually a nation) invades another region for material gain or to eliminate competition
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Chauvinism in which a person or group consider themselves to be superior, and thus entitled to use force to dominate others
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Sexual dominance involving individuals in a subset of BDSM behaviour
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Hierarchy
Music
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Dominant (music), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory
Albums
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Domination (Cannonball Adderley album) or the title track, 1965
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Domination (Morbid Angel album), 1995
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Domination, by Domino, 2004
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Domination, by Morifade, 2004
Songs
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"Domination" (song), by Pantera, 1990
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"Domination", by Band-Maid from World Domination, 2018
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"Domination", by Symphony X from Paradise Lost, 2007
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"Domination", by Way Out West from Way Out West, 1996
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"Domination", by Within the Ruins from Black Heart, 2020
Games
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Domination (chess), where a chess piece with wide movement cannot avoid capture
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Domination (video game), a turn-based computer game
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Domination (poker), a way of rating a poker hand
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Domination, also known as Focus, a 1964 game designed by Sid Sackson
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Domination (role-playing game), a tabletop role-playing game
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DomiNations, a 2015 mobile strategy game
Science
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Dominant wind, winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on the Earth's surface
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Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes
Biology
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Dominance (genetics), one allele is expressed over a second allele at the same locus
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Footedness, the natural preference of one's left or right foot
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Handedness, a better performance or preference for use of a hand
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Ocular dominance, the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other
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Dominance (ecology), the degree to which a taxon is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community
Mathematics
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Dominating decision rule, in decision theory
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Domination number, in graph theory
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Dominant maps, in rational mapping
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Dominated convergence theorem, application of function domination in measure theory
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Dominating set, in graph theory
Other uses
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Domination (angel), in Christian angelology
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The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling
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Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle
See also
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, a 2019 Las Vegas residency concert by Britney Spears
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Dominance (disambiguation)
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Dominator (disambiguation)
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Male dominance (disambiguation)