dominance

dominance

English

Etymology

From dominant +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒmɪnəns/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːmɪnəns/

Noun

dominance (countable and uncountable, plural dominances)

1. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
   • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport‎:

     But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.

   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 5:

     Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.

2. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 865290061, PC:

     Shepard: Too many lives were lost at that base. I'm not sorry it's gone.
     Illusive Man The first of many lives.
     Illusive Man: The technology from that base could have secured human dominance in the galaxy. Against the Reapers and beyond.

3. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
4. (biology, genetics) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.

Derived terms

• co-dominance
• cross-dominance
• dominancy
• escalation dominance
• incomplete dominance

 

Translations

state of being dominant

Armenian: գերիշխանություն (hy) (gerišxanutʿyun) Bulgarian: господство (bg) n (gospodstvo), преобладаване n (preobladavane) Chinese: Mandarin: 優勢／优势 (zh) (yōushì), 支配地位 (zhīpèi dìwèi) Czech: dominance f Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: dominantie (nl) f Finnish: hallinta (fi) French: domination (fr) f Georgian: დომინაცია (dominacia), დომინირება (dominireba) German: Dominanz (de) f Hebrew: דומיננטיות‎ f (dominant'iut) Persian: تسلط داشتن‎ (fa) (tasalot dâştan) Polish: dominacja (pl) f Portuguese: domínio (pt) m, dominância f, controle (pt) m Romanian: dominanță (ro) f, domnie (ro) f Russian: госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo), преоблада́ние (ru) n (preobladánije), домини́рование (ru) n (dominírovanije) Swedish: dominans (sv) c Vietnamese: chiếm ưu thế

being in a position over others

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: իշխանություն (hy) (išxanutʿyun), գերիշխանություն (hy) (gerišxanutʿyun) Chinese: Mandarin: 統治／统治 (zh) (tǒngzhì) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: overheersing (nl) Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi) French: dominance (fr) f, autorité (fr) f German: Herrschaft (de) f Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: domínio (pt) m, dominância f Russian: госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo), домини́рование (ru) n (dominírovanije) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

superior development or preference for one side of the body or for one of a pair of organs

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: դոմինանտություն (hy) (dominantutʿyun) Chinese: Mandarin: 單側性優勢／单侧性优势 (dāncèxìng yōushì) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: dominantie (nl) f Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi) French: dominance (fr) f German: Dominanz (de) f Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: dominância f Russian: домина́нтность (ru) f (dominántnostʹ), домини́рование (ru) n (dominírovanije) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

property of a gene

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: դոմինանտություն (hy) (dominantutʿyun) Bulgarian: доминантност (bg) f (dominantnost) Chinese: Mandarin: 顯性／显性 (zh) (xiǎnxìng) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: dominantie (nl) f Finnish: dominoivuus French: dominance (fr) f German: Dominanz (de) f Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: dominância f Romanian: dominanță (ro) f Russian: домина́нтность (ru) f (dominántnostʹ), домини́рование (ru) n (dominírovanije) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

dominance f (plural dominances)

1. dominance

Further reading

• “dominance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.