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Meaning of dominance

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dominance
      n 1: superior development of one side of the body [syn:
           {laterality}, {dominance}]
      2: 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" [syn:
         {dominance}, {ascendance}, {ascendence}, {ascendancy},
         {ascendency}, {control}]
      3: 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
      4: 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" [syn: {authority}, {authorization}, {authorisation},
         {potency}, {dominance}, {say-so}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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