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Defenition of the word dominance

    • Defenition of the word dominance

      • Of an allele, the extent to which it produces when heterozygous the same phenotype as when homozygous.
      • The principle of visual organization that suggests certain elements should assume more importance than others in the same composition or design.
      • Of a species, the extent to which it is numerically (or otherwise) predominant in a community.
      • the power to exercise authoritative or dominating control or influence over; "he has the authority to issue warrants"
      • 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"
      • superior development of one side of the body
      • the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"
      • the power or right to give orders or make decisions
      • 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
      • the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

    Synonyms for the word dominance

      • ascendance
      • ascendancy
      • ascendence
      • ascendency
      • authority
      • control
      • domination
      • governance
      • laterality
      • power
      • say-so
      • supremacy

    Similar words in the dominance

      • dominance
      • dominance's

    Hyponyms for the word dominance

      • absolutism
      • ascendant
      • ascendent
      • carte blanche
      • command
      • despotism
      • domination
      • dominion
      • imperium
      • lordship
      • mastery
      • monopoly
      • muscle
      • power of appointment
      • predominance
      • predomination
      • prepotency
      • regulation
      • rule
      • sovereignty
      • supremacy
      • tyranny

    Hypernyms for the word dominance

      • bodily property
      • condition
      • control
      • organic phenomenon
      • status

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