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Dominance
Introduction
Dominance may refer to several different concepts:
- Coercion
- Coronary artery dominance, a description of how many of the three major branches supplying the posterior and inferior wall of the left ventricle from the right coronary artery (RCA) and how many arise from the circumflex artery (CX)
- Dominance (biology), the state of having high social status relative to other individuals which causes them to react submissively, in biology and anthropology
- Domination and submission (BDSM), a form of human sexuality
- Dominance hierarchy
- Dominance relationship, a property of genes that determine whether offspring will inherit a characteristic from the father, the mother, or some blend of both
- Dominance (game theory), a property that makes one strategy a better choice than another
- Dominance (economics), a measure of firms’ share distribution (of production, sales, capacity or reserves) in a market or industry
- Dominating decision rule, a decision rule that always achieves lower risk in decision theory
- Dominance can refer to the preference of a body part on one side to its counterpart on the other side of the body. Handedness refers to the dominance of a specific hand over another, while footedness is for feet and ocular dominance is for eyes.
- Power (sociology)
- State power
- Stochastic dominance, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences