Dominance may refer to:
Social relationships Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations Social dominance orientation, a personality trait Abusive power and control, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person Dual strategies theory, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies
Biology Dominance (ethology), in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals Dominance (ecology), the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community Dominance (genetics), a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene
Mathematics Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games Stochastic dominance, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences Dominance order, a partial order Dominance drawing, a style of graph drawing
Other Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution Dominatrix, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation Male dominance (BDSM), BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male
See also Dominate, mid-to-late Roman Empire order Domination (disambiguation) Dominator (disambiguation) World domination (disambiguation) Social dominance (disambiguation)