Main entry: dominance, laterality
Definition: superior development of one side of the body
Main entry: dominance, potency, say-so, authorisation, authority, authorization
Definition: the power or right to give orders or make decisions
Usage: he has the authority to issue warrants; deputies are given authorization to make arrests; a place of potency in the state
Main entry: dominance
Definition: the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
Main entry: dominance, control, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency
Definition: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
Usage: her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her