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Domination or dominant may refer to:

Society

• World domination, which is mainly a conspiracy theory
• Colonialism in which one group (usually a nation) invades another region for material gain or to eliminate competition
• Chauvinism in which a person or group consider themselves to be superior, and thus entitled to use force to dominate others
• Sexual dominance involving individuals in a subset of BDSM behaviour
• Hierarchy

Music

• Dominant (music), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory

Albums

• Domination (Cannonball Adderley album) or the title track, 1965
• Domination (Morbid Angel album), 1995
• Domination, by Domino, 2004
• Domination, by Morifade, 2004

Songs

• "Domination" (song), by Pantera, 1990
• "Domination", by Band-Maid from World Domination, 2018
• "Domination", by Symphony X from Paradise Lost, 2007
• "Domination", by Way Out West from Way Out West, 1997
• "Domination", by Within the Ruins from Black Heart, 2020

Games

• Domination (chess), where a chess piece with wide movement cannot avoid capture
• Domination (video game), a turn-based computer game
• Domination (poker), a way of rating a poker hand
• Domination, also known as Focus, a 1964 game designed by Sid Sackson
• Domination (role-playing game), a tabletop role-playing game
• DomiNations, a 2015 mobile strategy game

Science

• Dominant wind, winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on the Earth's surface
• Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes

Biology

• Dominance (genetics), one allele is expressed over a second allele at the same locus
• Footedness, the natural preference of one's left or right foot
• Handedness, a better performance or preference for use of a hand
• Ocular dominance, the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye to the other
• Dominance (ecology), the degree to which a taxon is more numerous than its competitors in an ecological community

Mathematics

• Dominating decision rule, in decision theory
• Domination number, in graph theory
• Dominant maps, in rational mapping
• Dominated convergence theorem, application of function domination in measure theory
• Dominating set, in graph theory

Other uses

• Domination (angel), in Christian angelology
• Dominant CZ, a Czech Czech company
• The Domination, a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling
• Dominance and submission, in an erotic episode or lifestyle