A dominance hierarchy or social hierarchy is an organizational form by which individuals within a community control the distribution of resources within the community.
Subordination may refer to one of the following. Subordination in a hierarchy (in military, society, etc.) Subordination (trait), obedience Subordination (linguistics) Subordination (finance) Subordination agreement, a legal document used to deprecate...
A hierarchy (in Greek: Ἱεραρχία, derived from ἱερός — hieros, 'sacred', and ἄρχω — arkho, 'rule') is a system of ranking and organizing things or people, where each element of the system (except for the top element) is a...
Domination (poker): a poker hand A is said to dominate another hand B, if A has a greater chance of winning after drawing and moreover B has 3 or less outs to improve.
Dominance (economics): a concept related to the degree of inequality, disparity, or asymmetry in the market share distribution of the firms or participants in a market.
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
In music theory, the dominant note (second most important) of a key is that which is a perfect fifth above the tonic. The dominant is also the diatonic function of the dominant note and chord.
Dominance (ethology): An individual, pair, or small group can be the dominant animal in a group. Dominant animals take a higher position in a "pecking order", and may be the only animals allowed to breed within a group.
When a body part of one side of the body is preferred over its counterpart, the body part is said to be dominant. Such body parts can include hands (handedness), eyes (ocular dominance), and feet (footedness).