dominance

noun dominances

1. countable, uncountable The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy. But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.
2. countable, uncountable Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others. Shepard: Too many lives were lost at that base. I'm not sorry it's gone. Illusive Man: The first of many lives. Illusive Man: The technology from that base could have secured human dominance in the galaxy. Against the Reapers and beyond.
3. countable, uncountable A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another.
4. countable, uncountable The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
5. countable, uncountable of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.