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Dominance and submission
Dominance and submission, also called D/s, is the consensual exchange of power in BDSM: one partner takes the directing role and the other the yielding one, within negotiated limits.
Dominance hierarchy
Dominance hierarchy, or pecking order, is a ranked social structure in animal groups first described by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe in chickens in the 1920s, governing access to resources and reproduction.
Dominance of the Yu clan
The dominance of the Yu clan (庾氏专政) was the period when the Yu family, imperial in-laws of the Eastern Jin, controlled the court and upper Yangtze.
Dominant Genes
Dominant genes: alleles expressed when only one copy is present, masking the recessive allele. Autosomal dominant disorders need one changed gene, appear in every generation, and pass to children with 50% risk; examples include Huntington's disease and Marfan syndrome.
Dominant seventh chord
Dominant seventh chord (V7, major-minor seventh, Mm7): a major triad with a minor seventh, built on scale degree 5; its third-to-seventh tritone resolves to the tonic. Named via Rameau (1722); also a stable chord in blues and jazz.
Dominant-party system
Dominant-party system (one-party dominant system): a regime or democracy where one party wins elections repeatedly over multiple cycles while opposition competes. Key examples: Japan's LDP, Mexico's PRI (71 years), India's Congress; distinguished from hegemonic and one-party systems.
Dominate World Tour
Stray Kids World Tour (도미네이트 월드 투어), the South Korean boy band Stray Kids' third world tour promoting Ate, Giant, Hop, Mixtape: Dominate, and Hollow; announced July 8, 2024, opened at KSPO Dome Seoul, closed at Incheon Asiad Main Stadium in October 2025 after 56 shows and about 2.04 million attendees.
Dominated convergence theorem
Dominated convergence theorem, also called Lebesgue's dominated convergence theorem, is a measure theory result giving a condition under which a limit and an integral can be exchanged.
Dominating number
The dominating number, written 𝔡, is a cardinal characteristic of set theory: the smallest size of a family of natural-number functions that eventually dominates every such function.
Dominating set
The dominating set problem, in graph theory, asks for a smallest set of vertices covering a graph, so every vertex is in the set or adjacent to it.
Dominator (graph theory)
In graph theory, a dominator of a vertex v in a flowgraph is a vertex every path from the root to v must pass through; dominators form a dominator tree.
Dominatrix
Dominatrix (plural dominatrices, also pro-domme): a woman taking the dominant role in BDSM, often paid; works in dungeons, uses SSC/RACK consent frameworks, faces layered sex-work and kink stigma, and mostly does not have sex with clients.
Domineering
Domineering (Crosscram) is a partizan combinatorial game where one player places vertical dominoes and the other horizontal on a grid; whoever cannot place loses. Invented by Andersson, named by Conway; small-board values are switches, not numbers.
Domingo (Saturday Night Live)
Domingo is a recurring SNL character played by Marcello Hernández, debuting in the "Bridesmaid Speech" sketch (October 12, 2024, Ariana Grande episode), which parodies Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" and became season 50's most-watched sketch.
Domingo Colín
Domingo Colín (Domingo Colín Martínez, born 1952) is a Mexican race walker, 1975 Pan American Games 20 km silver medallist, disqualified at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics, and the first man under 1:20 for 20 km (1:19:35, 1980).
Domingo de Salazar
Domingo de Salazar (c. 1512–1594) was a Spanish Dominican who became the first bishop of Manila in 1581 and defended indigenous Filipinos against tribute and enslavement.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was an Argentine educator, writer, and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874 and wrote Facundo in 1845.
Domingo Germán
Domingo Germán, Dominican right-handed pitcher (born 1992, San Pedro de Macorís), threw MLB's 24th perfect game for the Yankees on June 28, 2023; also served an 81-game domestic violence suspension; career 31-29, 4.54 ERA.
Domingo Giribaldo
Domingo Giribaldo (1876–1950) was a Uruguayan chemist who taught at the University of the Republic and in 1925 produced sodium hypochlorite in South America for the first time.
Domingo Manrique
Domingo Manrique (Domingo José Manrique de Lara Peñate), Spanish sailor born 1962 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Olympic Flying Dutchman gold with Luis Doreste at Barcelona 1992; competed in four Games (1988–2000).
Domingo Martínez de Irala
Domingo Martínez de Irala was a Spanish conquistador and colonial administrator who governed the Río de la Plata and Paraguay from Asunción from 1539 until his death in 1556.
Domingo Paes
Domingo Paes, also rendered Domingos Paes, was a Portuguese merchant who traveled to the Vijayanagara Empire around 1520 and wrote an important account of Krishnadevaraya's court.
Domingo Quiñones
Domingo Quiñones is a Puerto Rican salsa singer and sonero, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, who rose to fame in the 1990s with RMM Records.
Domingo Santa María
Domingo Santa María González was a Chilean lawyer and Liberal politician who served as President of Chile from 1881 to 1886 and promulgated the lay laws.
Domingos Jorge Velho
Domingos Jorge Velho was a seventeenth-century Paulista bandeirante who led the campaign that destroyed the quilombo of Palmares in 1694, and died in Paraíba in 1705.
Domingos Olímpio
Domingos Olímpio was a Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and novelist born in Sobral, Ceará, whose naturalist novel Luzia-Homem (1903), drawn from the drought of 1877, secured his literary reputation.
Domingos Pellegrini
Domingos Pellegrini, full name Domingos Pellegrini Júnior, is a Brazilian writer born in Londrina in 1949, a six-time Jabuti winner best known for the novel Terra Vermelha.
Dominic Akuritinga Ayine
Dominic Akuritinga Ayine is a Ghanaian politician and lawyer who serves as Minister for Justice and Attorney General of Ghana and as Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East.
Dominic and the Ladies' Purse
Dominic and the Ladies' Purse (ഡൊമിനിക് ആൻഡ് ദി ലേഡീസ് പേഴ്സ്) is a 2025 Malayalam detective comedy-mystery, Gautham Vasudev Menon's Malayalam debut, starring Mammootty as an ex-cop detective; released 23 January 2025 by Mammootty Kampany, streaming on ZEE5.
Dominic Breazeale
Dominic "Trouble" Breazeale, American heavyweight boxer born 1985 in Glendale, California, a 2012 US Olympian and former quarterback; lost IBF title challenges to Anthony Joshua (2016, KO 7) and Deontay Wilder (2019, KO 1).