superior development of one side of the body
Used in a Sentence
dominance
How to use dominance in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for dominance.
Editorial note
Once we gain market dominance, we can use our captive audience to build our social network!
Examples9
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
superior development of one side of the body
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of dominance gathered in one view.
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for dominance.
noun
superior development of one side of the body
See also: laterality
noun
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
See also: ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
noun
the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
noun
the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state"
See also: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, say-so
Example sentences
Once we gain market dominance, we can use our captive audience to build our social network!
If one faction can gain an advantage that gives them dominance over another faction for the next 2 years, they'll view that as ok.
"Well those resources were certainly well spent, as the current dominance of these two companies indicates.
Microsoft almost missed the Internet, and retained some of their dominance only after decisive top-down action and investment.
Maybe that will be different in a year, but the market could certainly shape up to be more like the iPod dominance of music players than the iPhone/Android dominance of phones.
You've never played nice, and the fact that you've gotten better lately seems to be more due to the fact that you've lost dominance and have to interop with other operating systems.
It's very hard to imagine Intel just sitting and slowly losing their dominance of the microprocessor industry, ending up with a position like IBM or Sun.
And if you really want to make an argument about languages hurting the state of programming, how about asserting that the dominance of imperative languages is irreparably damaging the ability of most programmers to work in functional languages where solutions are fundamentally more robust.
Given their social networking dominance, their swimming pools filled with vc money, and the top engineers working for them, does anyone else feel like Facebook are underachievers?Considering they had to have known about G+ for a while before it launched, you would think they would really hit something out of the park in terms of competitive features.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use dominance in a sentence?
Once we gain market dominance, we can use our captive audience to build our social network!
What does dominance mean?
superior development of one side of the body
What part of speech is dominance?
dominance is commonly used as noun.