Dominance - Definition

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]