dominating adj

1 most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" [syn: ascendant, ascendent]

2 used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom" [syn: commanding, overlooking]

3 offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory]

English

Verb

dominating

1. present participle of dominate

Domination is the condition of having control or power over people, animals, or things.

The terms Domination or dominant may refer to:

Music

• Dominant (music), in music theory
• Domination (rapper) (b. 1982), an American rapper from Queens, New York
• Domination (album), 1995 album by U.S. death metal band Morbid Angel
• "Domination", a song on Pantera's 1990 album, Cowboys From Hell
• "Domination", a song on Symphony X's 2007 album, Paradise Lost

Biology

• Dominant allele in genetics is the affecting allele in the gene.
• Ocular dominance for when one eye is dominant
• Handedness for when one hand is dominant
• Footedness for when one foot is dominant

Mathematics

• Dominating decision rule, in decision theory

Games

• Domination (chess) occurs where a chess piece with wide movement cannot avoid capture.
• Domination (computer game) is a turn-based computer game.
• Domination (poker), way of rating a poker hand
• Domination, also known as Focus (board game), a 1964 game designed by Sid Sackson
• Domination, a multiplayer game mode featured in the popular 2007 video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, among others.

Other

• The Domination, a series of dystopian novels by S. M. Stirling

See also

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