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
• Dominance (ethology), in biology and anthropology, the state of having high social status relative to other individuals
• Dominance (game theory), in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy
• Dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy is an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community.
• Dominance (genetics), in genetics, a specific relationship between the effects of different versions of a gene
• Dominance and submission, set of behaviors, customs, and rituals in an erotic or lifestyle context
• Ocular dominance, the circumstance in which one eye is preferred over the other

Mathematics

• Dominance (game theory) is 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

See also

• Dominate (disambiguation)
• Domination, disambiguation page
• Dominator, disambiguation page
• World domination (disambiguation)