Dominance

Social relationships Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community

Dominance may refer to:

Science

  • Dominance (psychology), assesses a person's characteristic feelings of control and influence over his life circumstances versus feelings of being controlled and influenced by others or events

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

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
  • 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

See also

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