1. (

• laterality ,
• dominance ,

) superior development of one side of the body ;

2. (

• dominance ,
• ascendance ,
• ascendence ,
• ascendancy ,
• ascendency ,
• control

) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" ;

3. (

• dominance

) 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 ;

4. (

• authority ,
• authorization ,
• authorisation ,
• potency ,
• dominance ,
• say-so

) the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" ;