| domestic violence | Deliberate, often repetitive, physical abuse by one family member against another: marital partners, parents, children, siblings, or any other member of a household. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| domesticate | 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant. Origin: LL. Domesticatus, p. P. Of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| domify | 1. <astronomy> To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. 2. To tame; to domesticate. Origin: L. Domus + -fy: cf. F. Domifier. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dominance | <genetics> The full phenotypic expression of a gene in both heterozygotes and homozygotes. Origin: L. Dominari = to govern (18 Nov 1997) |
| dominance hierarchy | A social situation in which one organism dominates all below it, the next all below it, and so on down to the organism dominated by all; e.g., the pecking order in apes, seals, barnyard hens, and other species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dominance measure | The means or method by which dominance is established, including areal coverage and basal area, the total dominance measure is the sum total of the dominance measure values for all species comprising a given stratum. (09 Oct 1997) |
| dominance threshold number | The number at which 50 percent of the total dominance measure for a given stratum is represented by one or more plant species when ranked in descending order of abundance (i.e., from most to least abundant), when this number is immediately exceeded, the dominant species for the stratum are realised. (09 Oct 1997) |
| dominance, cerebral | Dominance of one cerebral hemisphere over the other in cerebral functions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dominance-subordination | Relationship between individuals when one individual threatens or becomes aggressive and the other individual remains passive or attempts to escape. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dominant | <genetics> A gene is said to be dominant if it expresses its phenotype even in the presence of a recessive gene. (09 Oct 1997) |
| dominant character | An inherited character determined by one kind of allele. See: phenotype. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dominant eye | The eye that is customarily used for monocular tasks. Synonym: master eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dominant frequency | The frequency occurring most often in an electroencephalogram. (05 Mar 2000) |