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語源

From dominant + -ance.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɒmɪnəns/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˈdɑmɪnəns/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˈdɒmɪnəns/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈdɔmɪnəns/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈdɒmənəns/, [ˈdɔ̟mənəns]
• ハイフネーション: dom‧in‧ance

名詞

dominance (countable and uncountable, plural dominances)

1. The state of being dominant; of prime importance; supremacy.
   • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport‎:

     But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:

     Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.

2. Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.
   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC:

     Shepard: Too many lives were lost at that base. I'm not sorry it's gone.
     Illusive Man: The first of many lives.
     Illusive Man: The technology from that base could have secured human dominance in the galaxy. Against the Reapers and beyond.

3. A feeling of power and capacity to act or control another.
4. (physiology) The superior development of or preference for one side of the body or one of a pair of organs; such as being right-handed.
5. (biology, genetics) of an allele, the degree to which it expresses its phenotype when heterozygous, such as whether it is dominant or recessive.

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