Domination
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Domination is the condition of having control or power over people or things.
Domination, dominance, or dominant may refer to various things:
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[edit] Music
- In music theory, the dominant note (second most important) of a key is that which is a perfect fifth above the tonic. The dominant is also the diatonic function of the dominant note and chord.
- Domination is a 1965 album by Cannonball Adderley.
- Domination (album) is an album by U.S. death metal band Morbid Angel.
- Domination (rapper) is an American rapper from Queens, New York.
- Domination Through Impurity is a U.S. death metal band.
- "Domination" is the sixth track of Pantera's album, Cowboys From Hell.
[edit] Science
- Dominance (ethology): An individual, pair, or small group can be the dominant animal in a group. Dominant animals take a higher position in a "pecking order", and may be the only animals allowed to breed within a group.
- Dominance (genetics): a dominant allele is one whose associated phenotype is seen when the allele is heterozygous with a recessive allele of the same gene.
- Dominance (economics): a concept related to the degree of inequality, disparity, or asymmetry in the market share distribution of the firms or participants in a market.
- A dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy is an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community.
- When a body part of one side of the body is preferred over its counterpart, the body part is said to be dominant. Such body parts can include hands (handedness), eyes (ocular dominance), and feet (footedness).
[edit] Mathematics
- Dominance (game theory) is a method of simplification for games.
- In decision theory, one estimator dominates another if it always achieves lower risk.
- 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
[edit] Games
- Domination (chess) occurs where a chess piece with wide movement cannot avoid capture.
- Domination (computer game) is a turn-based computer game.
- A video game named Domination (James Bond video game) is featured in Never Say Never Again.
- Domination (CityofVillains) is an inherit power in the NCSoft MMO CityofVillains.
- Domination (poker): a poker hand A is said to dominate another hand B, if A has a greater chance of winning after drawing and moreover B has 3 or less outs to improve.
- "Domination" is another name for Focus (board game), a board game designed by Sid Sackson.
[edit] Other
- The Domination is a series of dystopian novels by S. M. Stirling.
- Domination and submission (BDSM) is a psychosexual behavior and one of the many forms of BDSM.
- Domination is a Commodore 64 diskmag which also had a paper edition.
[edit] See also
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