commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others
said of a position: commanding a view from a superior height
denoting the one of a pair of bodily structures, e.g. the eye, that is the more effective or predominant in action
denoting the one of a pair of genes determining contrasting inherited characteristics that predominates: compare recessive1
denoting the species that has the strongest representation in an ecological community
dominance noun
dominancy /-si/ noun
dominantly adv
[via French from Latin dominant-, dominans, present part. of dominari: see dominate]