dominance

noun
/ˈdɒmɪnəns/UK/ˈdɑmɪnəns/US/ˈdɒmɪnəns/CA/ˈdɔmɪnəns/

Etymology

From dominant + -ance.

Definitions

  1. The state of being dominant

    The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.

    • 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.
    • 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.

    • 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. The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of…

    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. + 1 more definition
    1. of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as…

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dominance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dominance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at dominance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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