Dominance

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Dominance may refer to:

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 hierarchy or social hierarchy, an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community
Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context
Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes

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

Strategic dominance, a method of simplification for games.
Stochastic dominance, a situation in which one lottery (a probability distribution of outcomes) can be ranked as superior to another, with only limited knowledge of preferences
Dominance order, a partial order.