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Domestic partnership in California
A domestic partnership in California is a legal relationship registered with the Secretary of State giving partners the same rights and duties as spouses under state law.
Domestic partnership in the United States
Domestic partnership in the United States: a state or local legal status for unmarried couples, same-sex or opposite-sex, granting rights like hospital visitation and insurance; unrecognized federally, diminished after Obergefell 2015.
Domestic pigeon
Domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica), domesticated form of the rock dove, kept for food, racing, and messaging; ancestor of feral city pigeons; central to Darwin's artificial selection studies and to rotavirus and Chlamydia psittaci disease research.
Domestic policy of the second Trump administration
Domestic policy of the second Trump administration (from January 20, 2025): immigration enforcement ending roughly one million legal statuses, sweeping tariffs, deregulation via Project 2025-aligned executive action, loyalty-focused staffing, inspector general firings, and court setbacks on tariffs and birthright citizenship.
Domestic rabbit
The domestic rabbit, also called the pet rabbit, is the domesticated form of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, kept worldwide for meat, wool, fur, laboratory research, and companionship.
Domestic terrorism
Domestic terrorism, also known as homegrown terrorism, is ideologically driven violence carried out within a country by residents acting without foreign direction, defined in United States law.
Domestic terrorism in the United States
Domestic terrorism in the United States: ideologically driven violence defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2331(5), with no standalone federal charging statute. FBI/DHS track DVE threats (REMVE, AGAAVE, and others); lone offenders are the primary threat, and investigations doubled after 2020.
Domestic tragedy
Domestic tragedy is a genre of Elizabethan and Jacobean English drama portraying murder, adultery, and death in non-elite households, exemplified by Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness.
Domestic turkey
Domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo lineage): a large galliform bird domesticated in Mesoamerica before European contact, re-exported via Europe, bred by artificial insemination, and raised worldwide mainly for lean meat; the U.S. is the largest producer.
Domestic violence
Domestic violence (domestic abuse, intimate partner violence) is a pattern of coercive behavior, physical, sexual, economic, or psychological, used to control an intimate partner. Key facts: 1 in 3 women affected worldwide; 84% of countries have DV laws; protection orders are the main civil remedy.
Domestic violence against men
Domestic violence against men is abuse by an intimate partner or family member, including physical, sexual, and psychological harm. In England and Wales, 13.8% of men experienced such abuse.
Domestic violence in India
Domestic violence in India, governed by the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 (PWDVA), a civil remedy covering physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and economic abuse; shaped by Harsora v. Harsora (2016), which deleted 'adult male' from the respondent definition, with NFHS-5 spousal violence prevalence of 29.3%.
Domestic violence in the United States
Domestic violence in the United States: pattern of abusive behavior by an intimate partner, also called intimate partner violence. Measured by CDC NISVS (over 12 million victims yearly); legal framework centers on the 1994 Violence Against Women Act and its reauthorizations.
Domestic worker
Domestic workers, also known as domestic staff, are people employed by households globally. The International Labour Organization defined the category in 2011, noting 52.6 million workers in 2010.
Domesticated hedgehog
Domesticated hedgehog, or African pygmy hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris), a spiny nocturnal insectivore bred as a pet since the 1980s; needs 24–29°C warmth, kibble diet, carries Salmonella, banned in some US states.
Domesticated silver fox
Domesticated silver fox: red fox (Vulpes vulpes) color variant bred for tameness since 1959 at the ICG Novosibirsk by Belyaev and Trut; dog-like behavior, serotonin and coat changes, domestication-syndrome debate.
Domestication
Domestication: coevolutionary mutualism in which one species controls another's fitness for resources or services, producing crops, livestock, and pets; began with the wolf at least 15,000 years ago, distinct from taming, and marked by the domestication syndrome.
Domestication and foreignization
Domestication and foreignization are two translation strategies described by Lawrence Venuti: domestication adapts a source text to the target culture's norms, while foreignization preserves its foreign character.
Domestication of the dog
The domestication of the dog is how gray wolves became the domestic dog, the first animal ever domesticated, in the Old World at least 14,000 years ago.
Domestication of the horse
Domestication of the horse: earliest husbandry evidence at Botai, Kazakhstan, c. 3500 BCE, but modern domestic horses descend from the DOM2 lineage of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, spread globally about 4,200 years ago.
Domestique
Domestique: French for "servant", the road cycling team rider who works for the leader, sheltering from wind, fetching bottles, pacing climbs, and donating wheels; Italian gregario; earliest leader-support use 1907 Tour de France.
Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson (born 1983) is an Irish actor, son of Brendan Gleeson, known as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter, General Hux in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and leads of About Time, Ex Machina, The Patient, and The Paper.
Domicide
Domicide is the deliberate destruction of home, a term coined by geographers J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith in 2001, spanning extreme wartime destruction and everyday displacement, with recent campaigns to codify it as an international crime.
Domicile (astrology)
In astrology, domicile is the placement of a planet in the zodiac sign it rules, such as Mars in Aries; traditionally the highest of the essential dignities.
Domicile (law)
Domicile (law): the common-law connecting factor tying a person to one territorial legal system as a permanent home, requiring residence plus intent; distinct from nationality and residence; types are origin, choice, and dependence; UK tax domicile abolished April 2025.
Domina (Overwatch)
Domina is a Tank hero in Overwatch, released February 10, 2026 with Season 1: Conquest (Reign of Talon). A Vishkar Corporation hard-light negotiator with segmented Barrier Array and the Panopticon imprisoning ultimate; not to be confused with D.Mon.
Domina (TV series)
Domina is a Sky Original Italo-British historical drama (2021–2023, two seasons of eight episodes) created by Simon Burke, starring Kasia Smutniak as Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus, filmed at Cinecittà on the set built for HBO's Rome.
Dominance (genetics)
Dominance (genetics): the relationship describing a heterozygote's effect relative to both homozygotes, quantified by the dominance coefficient h. Covers Mendel's pea crosses, molecular mechanisms, Fisher-Wright debate, and codominance examples like ABO blood type.
Dominance analysis
Dominance analysis is a statistical method for ranking the relative importance of predictor variables in a regression model, introduced by David V. Budescu in 1993.
Dominance and reproductive conflict in paper wasps
Dominance and reproductive conflict in paper wasps describes how Polistes foundresses form linear hierarchies in which the dominant monopolizes egg-laying, making the genus a standard system for testing social evolution theories.