dominance Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun superior development of one side of the body
   laterality.
   
2. noun the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
   control; ascendance; ascendency; ascendancy; ascendence.
   
   • her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
3. noun 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. noun the power or right to give orders or make decisions
   potency; authority; say-so; authorisation; authorization.
   
   • he has the authority to issue warrants
   • deputies are given authorization to make arrests
   • a place of potency in the state

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