"domination" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌdɒməˈneɪʃən/ [UK], /ˌdɑːməˈneɪʃən/ [US] Audio: En-domination.ogg Forms: dominations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle English domynacion, from Old French dominacion, from Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”); see dominate. Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|domynacion||}} Middle English domynacion, {{der|en|fro|dominacion||}} Old French dominacion, {{der|en|la|dominātiō||rule, dominion}} Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} domination (countable and uncountable, plural dominations)
  1. Control by means of superior ability, influence, position, or resources; prevailing force. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. The exercise of power in ruling; sovereignty; authority; government. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. (Christianity) A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Christianity
    Sense id: en-domination-en-noun-yhwj9kqa Topics: Christianity
  4. (BDSM) A fetish characterized by control and power over and discipline of one's sexual partner. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): BDSM Translations (act of dominating): δυναστεία (dunasteía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), преобладаване (preobladavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), господство (gospodstvo) (Bulgarian), dominació [feminine] (Catalan), nadvláda [feminine] (Czech), herredømme [neuter] (Danish), overheersing [feminine] (Dutch), domination [feminine] (French), dominación [feminine] (Galician), დომინაცია (dominacia) (Georgian), dominazione [feminine] (Italian), бийлик (biylik) (Kyrgyz), үстөмдүк (üstömdük) (Kyrgyz), dominatio [feminine] (Latin), herredømme [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), herredøme [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), herredømme [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), dominacja [feminine] (Polish), dominação [feminine] (Portuguese), domínio [masculine] (Portuguese), господство (gospodstvo) [neuter] (Russian), ceannsachadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)
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  5. (topology) Synonym of cover Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Topology Synonyms: cover [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-domination-en-noun-xcQFKAsM Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: domination line, domination number, financial domination, minority domination Related terms: dominate, dominion, dominator, domineering

Inflected forms

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          "text": "[...] thou and thine vſurpe / The Dominations, Royalties, and rights / Of this oppreſſed boy; [...]",
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          "ref": "1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 3rd edition, London: J. Dodsley, page 28:",
          "text": "I am no friend to ariſtocracy [...]. [... O]n the ſuppoſed ruin of the conſtitution, [...] if it muſt periſh, I would rather by far ſee it reſolved into any other form, than loſt in that auſtere and inſolent domination.",
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          "ref": "1998, Teresa W. Haynes, Stephen T. Hedetniemi, Peter J. Slater, Fundamentals of Domination in Graphs, →ISBN, page 299:",
          "text": "With more than 200 research papers published on the algorithmic complexity of domination and related parameters of graphs, it is difficult to know what to cover in a relatively short chapter on the subject, especially since it could take quite a few pages just to cover the preliminaries of computational complexity and the many algorithm design paradigms that have been applied to domination problems.",
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      "word": "დომინაცია"
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