The Collaborative International Dictionary
Domination \Dom`i*na"tion\, n. [F. domination, L. dominatio.]
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The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.
In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom.
--Burke. A ruling party; a party in power. [R.]
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pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "rule, control," from Old French dominacion (12c.) "domination, rule, power," from Latin dominationem (nominative dominatio), noun of action from past participle stem of dominari "to rule, have dominion over," from dominus "lord, master," literally "master of the house," from domus "home" (see domestic) + -nus, suffix denoting ownership or relation. Sexual sense by 1961.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority, often when arbitrary or insolent. 2 A ruling party; a party in power. 3 A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.
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Domination or dominant may refer to:
In chess, and particularly in endgame studies, domination occurs when a piece has a relatively wide choice of destination squares, but nevertheless cannot avoid being captured. The example to the right is an example from actual play: the position occurred in the game Beliavsky– Korchnoi, György Marx Memorial, 2004. White blundered with 38.Kh2? allowing 38...Qd3 - this dominates the knight: despite having six squares available to it, its capture cannot be avoided. b2, d2, a5 and e5 are guarded by the black bishop, d6 by the black queen, and b6 by the pawn. Additionally, there is no way for the white queen to safely defend it, as every square she could defend it from is guarded by the black queen. Examples in composed endgame studies can be rather more subtle, complex and spectacular than those found in games. The example shown to the left is a study by Henri Rinck first published in La Stratégie in 1920. It is white to play and win. Normally, Black would be able to sacrifice his rook for the white bishop, leaving a drawn position (sacrificing it for a knight would be no good, since it is possible to force mate with bishop and knight), but in this case it turns out that the rook is dominated, and its capture cannot be avoided despite its freedom of movement. The first move of the solution is 1.Nd2, after which all rook moves allow it to be captured or immediately lost to a knight fork (1...Re7 2.Nd5+; 1...Re3 2.Nd5+; 1...Rd4 2.Ne6+; 1...Rb4 2.Nd5+) apart from one: 1...Re5. After 2.Nc4 the situation is similar: only 2...Re4 and 2...Rf5 avoid immediate loss of the rook. Whichever Black plays, White continues with 3.Nd6 when only 3...Re5 avoids immediate loss. 4.Bf3 leaves Black completely helpless: once again, all moves allow capture of the rook or a knight fork except 4...Ra5, when after 5.Ne6+ Ke5 6.Nc4+ the rook is finally won. At all stages the rook had wide freedom of movement, and twice it had the maximum number of fourteen squares available to it, yet it could not be saved; it was dominated.
Domination (alternative title: Massive Assault: Phantom Renaissance) is a science fiction turn-based tactics game and is the third incarnation of Massive Assault with the subtitle “Massive Assault Like Never Before”. During the Galactic Revolution, you can side with either the Free Nations Union or the Phantom League to decide the outcome of the conflict.
Domination is the fourth full-length studio album by death metal band Morbid Angel, released in 1995. This was Morbid Angel's last album under the label Giant Records before the company filed for bankruptcy. The band then re-signed with their former label, Earache Records.
The CD cover is shown here. The LP came with a different but similar computer generated picture. Initial copies came in a green jewelcase. There was also a limited edition "Slime Pack" planned, which was never released after several packs leaked before shipping and the slime-substance was found to be toxic.
A music video was produced for the song "Where the Slime Live".
David Vincent left the band soon after the release of Domination and was replaced by Steve Tucker. Vincent returned to the band in 2004 but it would not be until the release of Illud Divinum Insanus in 2011 that he would appear on new Morbid Angel recordings.
Poker hand A is said to dominate poker hand B if poker hand B has three or fewer outs (cards to catch) that would improve it enough to win. Informally, domination is sometimes used to refer to any situation where one hand is highly likely to beat another. The term drawing dead is used to denote a domination situation with zero outs.
Domi<>nation is the fourth fullength studio album by Swedish power metal band Morifade. It was released in 2004.
Domination is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Capitol label featuring performances of by Adderley with an orchestra conducted by Oliver Nelson. The CD release added the bonus track "Experience in E" composed by Joe Zawinul and originally released on the 1970 album The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra.
Domination is a role-playing game published by StarChilde Publications in 1989.
Usage examples of "domination".
The disastrous period of the Hyksos domination in Egypt has left but one trace at Knossos, but that is of peculiar interest, for it is the lid of an alabastron bearing the name of the Hyksos King Khyan.
Thirteenth Egyptian Dynasty, while the alabastron of Khyan links the later portion of the period with the Hyksos domination in Egypt.
The domination which the huge, oafish Aulf exerted over them showed that.
It was clear that the coming winter campaign would be the supreme crisis of the struggle in the East, that the Russian southern flank in the Don and Caucasus regions was to be the theatre, and the oilfields of Baku and the domination of the Caspian area the immediate German goal.
They went about their daily buggish tasks of trying to eat each other, their role in a struggle for universal domination already forgotten.
To automatically assume that differentiation of roles is the result of domination is to automatically define a particular group as victim, which automatically and irrevocably disempowers that group in the very attempt to liberate it.
THE MOVE AGAINST FOREIGN INVESTORS IN THE BABY BUDGET OF 1960: In line with his hustings promises of the 1957 and 1958 campaigns, Diefenbaker spent much Of 1959 and 196o making vaguely chauvinistic statements about the dangers to the Canadian economy of foreign domination.
Well, if that modernity has come to an end, and if the modern nation-state that served as the ineluctable condition for imperialist domination and innumerable wars is disappearing from the world scene, then good riddance!
Lords of Kismet govern Asia, and they have plans to extend their domination into North America.
What appears as revolutionary and liberatory in this notion of national, popular sovereignty, however, is really nothing more than another turn of the screw, a further extension of the subjugation and domination that the modern concept of sovereignty has carried with it from the beginning.
The proposed withdrawal of the United States Army to the occupational lines which were arranged with the Russians and Americans in Quebec, and which were marked in yellow on the maps we studied there, would mean the tide of Russian domination sweeping forward 120 miles on a front of 300 or 400 miles.
Tamina escapes the oppositional domination of extremes that has tortured her life throughout the novel.
El Sapo and Jesus Cabrito were probably still squabbling for domination, but neither would love the unborn ultiman.
It passed briefly across her mind that when there had seemed no hope of more than surviving under alien domination she had hated this would-have-been spacewoman for being so much better at competing with men.
And AINSOPH had full consciousness and appreciation, prior to their actual existence, of all the Grades and Impersonations contained unmanifested within Himself, with regard to the essence of each, and its domination then in potency .