Meaning of dominance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
   countable, uncountable
2. Hegemony, dominance.
3. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
   countable, uncountable
4. The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
   countable, uncountable
5. of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.”

“Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.”

“Shepard: Too many lives were lost at that base. I'm not sorry it's gone. Illusive Man: The first of many lives. Illusive Man: The technology from that base could have secured human dominance in the galaxy. Against the Reapers and beyond.”

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