dominance

English

Etymology

From dominant +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒmɪnəns/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑmɪnəns/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔmɪnəns/

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^[1]:

     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, 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, 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) of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.

Derived terms

• codominance
• dominancy
• incomplete dominance
• overdominance

 

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 dâštan)
• 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
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• Dutch: overheersing (nl)
• Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi)
• French: dominance (fr) f, autorité (fr) f
• German: Herrschaft (de) f
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• Portuguese: domínio (pt) m, dominância f
• Russian: госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo), домини́рование (ru) n (dominírovanije)
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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)

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• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: dominantie (nl) f
• Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi)
• French: dominance (fr) f
• German: Dominanz (de) f
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• Portuguese: dominância f
• Russian: домина́нтность (ru) f (dominántnostʹ), домини́рование (ru) n (dominírovanije)
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• 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
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• Dutch: dominantie (nl) f
• Finnish: dominoivuus
• French: dominance (fr) f
• German: Dominanz (de) f
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• Portuguese: dominância f
• Romanian: dominanță (ro) f
• Russian: домина́нтность (ru) f (dominántnostʹ), домини́рование (ru) n (dominírovanije)
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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.