0 the quality of being more important, strong, or successful than anything else of the same type: --
There are a small number of human genes whose dominance is contingent upon which parent contributes them.
The accepted way to manage elephants in zoos was through close contact and dominance.
The new chairman appears to be trying to assert his dominance with a set of personnel changes.
The dominance of the car makes cycling and walking increasingly difficult.
The party's dominance in Scotland was being challenged for the first time.
1 the situation in which one company, product, etc. has more power, influence, or success than others: --
The women preferred to evaluate the varieties separately at physiological maturity to overcome the problem of male dominance.
These variances are equal in the absence of dominance (d l 0).
There is some, if not a great deal, of room for the courts to manoeuvre in the dominance of the party and administrative power.
Again, this seems at odds with the evidence that it was the left-hemispheric dominance for vocalization, not righthandedness, that arose earlier in evolution.
Before proponents of the so-called literary turn in anthropology achieved dominance in the field, the anthropological monograph was an easily identified artefact.
The theoretical status of morphologically conditioned phonology : a case study of dominance effects.
Competition between bacterial populations in a community causes a succession of microorganisms and may lead to the dominance of some species.
Perhaps the other minor quibble about this series is the dominance of medicine and the medical model in the scope of topics discussed.