dominance

noun

1. 1

   superior development of one side of the body

2. 2

   the power or right to give orders or make decisions

   he has the authority to issue warrants

   deputies are given authorization to make arrests

3. 3

   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

4. 4

   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