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What does dominance mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
  2. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
  3. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
  4. (biology) The property of a gene such that it suppresses the expression of its allele.
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Notoriously ill-informed over policy detail and often content to abdicate control, he nonetheless maintained presidential dominance.
Also, the relative amounts of the different compounds of the mixture tend to be more even, which is reflected in lower dominance values.
Ironically, however, earlier this summer another assertion of Christocentric dominance received a very different reception from this country.
Some alleles show incomplete dominance and therefore seem to display a blend of phenotypes from the parents.
When most individuals in the group differ in size, stable dominance relationships generally yield transitive hierarchies consistent with size.
This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance.

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