dominance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dominance	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dominance
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dominance n superior development of one side of the body [syn: laterality, dominance] 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" Synonym(s): dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control 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 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" Synonym(s): authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dominance \Dom"inance\, Dominancy \Dom"inan*cy\, n. Predominance; ascendency; authority.