Dominance

• Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community • Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context • Social dominance theory, a theory of intergroup relations • Social dominance orientation, a personality trait • Abusive power and control, the way that an abusive person gains and maintains power and control over another person • Dual strategies theory, dominance and its counterpart prestige as two strategies for gaining status in human hierarchies ==Biology==

• Dominance (ethology), in animal behaviour and anthropology, the level of social status relative to other individuals • Dominance (ecology), the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an ecological community • Dominance (genetics), a relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene == Mathematics ==

• Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games • 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 • Dominance order, a partial order • Dominance drawing, a style of graph drawing ==Other==

• Dominance (C++), an aspect of virtual inheritance in the C++ programming language • Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution • Dominatrix, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities • Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy • Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes • Dominance (geography), a radius used with topographic isolation • Male dominance (BDSM), BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male ==See also==