Search Result:dominance
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˋdɑmәnәns 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˊdɒminәns 〕
Overview of noun dominance
The noun dominance has 4 senses
- laterality, dominance -- (superior development of one side of the body)
- dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control -- (the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her")
- dominance -- (the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not)
- authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so -- (the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state")