Domination

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

Music

Dominant (music), a diatonic scale step and diatonic function in tonal music theory
Dominant seventh chord, a four-note chord consisting of a major triad and a minor seventh
Domination (Cannonball Adderley album), 1965
Domination (Domino album), 2004
Domination (Morbid Angel album), 1995
Domination (Morifade album), 2004
"Domination", a song by Band-Maid from World Domination
"Domination", a song by Pantera from Cowboys from Hell
"Domination", a song by Symphony X from Paradise Lost
"Domination", a song by Way Out West from Way Out West

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
Domination, a gamemode in the Call Of Duty Games

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

Other uses

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

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gollark: It seems like it's being run in reverse to convert the X/Y of the pen into sound.

gollark: This makes sense as a display thing, but how do you run it *backward*?

gollark: I tried playing a 10Hz sine wave just now and I can't hear it.

gollark: The position of the pen clearly can't be being directly mapped to voltage on a speaker or something, because the frequency would be waaaaay too low to hear.