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  2. Dominance and submission - Wikipedia

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    The terms top and bottom are used as verbs or nouns to describe the physical play of SM but with less of a focus of the "sadist" and "masochist" part of the activity. They can be used as synonyms for dominant and submissive. [16] The term dungeon is used as a reference to a space/room designated for sadomasochism play. It can also be used to ...

  3. Glossary of BDSM - Wikipedia

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    It is believed that the word is a combination of "squirm" and "icky" and is used to imply an uncomfortable feeling mixed with disgust. The term is used instead of disgust because that word implies moral repugnance to the act. [12] [105] [106] Sub drop: A strong physical and emotional response experienced by a participant in a BDSM scene. This ...

  4. Dominance - Wikipedia

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    Dominance (economics), in economics, the degree of inequality in market share distribution; Dominatrix, a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities; Strategic dominance, in game theory, when one strategy is better for one opponent regardless of the other opponent's strategy; Dominance (linguistics), a relationship between syntactic nodes

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  6. Expressions of dominance - Wikipedia

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    In terms of expressiveness, males, but not females, were rated as more dominant when they were facially expressive (.26, -.36) respectively. [1] In addition, Carney, Hall, and LeBeau found that more facial expressiveness was appropriate for those with more power and that these individuals were also more likely to have self-assured expressions ...

  7. Dominance (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    Ecological dominance is the degree to which one or several species have a major influence controlling the other species in their ecological community (because of their large size, population, productivity, or related factors) [1] or make up more of the biomass. Both the composition and abundance of species within an ecosystem can be affected by ...

  8. Market domination - Wikipedia

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    Market dominance is the control of a economic market by a firm. [1] A dominant firm possesses the power to affect competition [2] and influence market price. [3] A firms' dominance is a measure of the power of a brand, product, service, or firm, relative to competitive offerings, whereby a dominant firm can behave independent of their competitors or consumers, [4] and without concern for ...

  9. Dominance (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    Autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance, the two most common Mendelian inheritance patterns. An autosome is any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.. In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.