domination

1. (Christianity) A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.Examples: "Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers."; "The succession of orders given in this passage is not exactly the same as in the succeeding chapters, in which it is as follows: -- Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones; Dominations, Virtues, Powers; Principalities, Archangels, Angels."; "According to Dionysius, the dominations have the duty in the heavenly host of regulating the tasks of the angels and "through them the majesty of God is manifested." Through the efforts of the dominations - who are naturally seen only rarely by mortals -- the very order of the cosmos is maintained."countableuncountable

2. (BDSM) A fetish characterized by control and power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.Examples: "By night, I am Mistress Shay Noir, the Black queen of domination. The world's most beautiful sadist."countableuncountable

3. (topology) Synonym of cover.Examples: "With more than 200 research papers published on the algorithmic complexity of domination and related parameters of graphs, it is difficult to know what to cover in a relatively short chapter on the subject, especially since it could take quite a few pages just to cover the preliminaries of computational complexity and the many algorithm design paradigms that have been applied to domination problems."Synonyms: covercountableuncountable