Domination

Domination or dominant may refer to:

Music

• Dominant (music), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory
• Dominant seventh chord, a four-note chord consisting of a major triad and a minor seventh
• Domination (Cannonball Adderley album)
• Domination (Domin album)
• Domination (Morbid Angel album)
• Domination (Morifade album)
• "Domination", a song by Pantera from Cowboys from Hell
• "Domination", a song by Symphony X from Paradise Lost

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

Other uses

• The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling
• Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle

See also

• Dominance (disambiguation)
• Dominator (disambiguation)