FluentPlex

dominance

/ˈdɑmɪnəns/ noun C1
  1. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another. (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)

Plural dominances

+ Save to review

Learn dominance in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.