Field
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Field may refer to:
Expanses of open ground
[edit]- Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes
- Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport
- Battlefield
- Lawn, an area of mowed grass
- Meadow, a grassland that is either natural or allowed to grow unmowed and ungrazed
- Playing field, used for sports or games
Arts and media
[edit]- In decorative art, the main area of a decorated zone, often contained within a border, often the background for motifs
- Field (heraldry), the background of a shield
- In flag terminology, the background of a flag
- FIELD (magazine), a literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
- Field (sculpture), by Anthony Gormley
Organizations
[edit]- Field department, the division of a political campaign tasked with organizing local volunteers and directly contacting voters
- Field Enterprises, a defunct private holding company
- Field Communications, a division of Field Enterprises
- Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago
People
[edit]- Field (surname)
- Field Cate (born 1997), American child actor
Places
[edit]- Field, British Columbia, Canada
- Field, Kentucky, United States
- Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Field, Ontario, Canada
- Field, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
- Field, South Australia
- Field Hill, British Columbia, Canada
- Field Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Mount Field (disambiguation), mountains in Canada, the United States, Australia and Antarctica
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Biology
[edit]- Morphogenetic field, a discrete region of cells in an embryo
Computing
[edit]- Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields)
- Column (database), sometimes referred to as 'field', with various meanings
- Field-programmability, an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic
Geology
[edit]- Field (mineral deposit), a mineral deposit containing valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration
- Polje or karst field, a characteristic landform in karst topography
Mathematics
[edit]- Field (mathematics), type of algebraic structure
- Number field, specific type of the above algebraic structure
- Scalar field, assignment of a scalar to each point in a mathematical space
- Tensor field, assignment of a tensor to each point in a mathematical space
- Vector field, assignment of a vector to each point in a mathematical space
- Field of sets, a mathematical structure of sets in an abstract space
- Field of a binary relation, union of its domain and its range
Optics
[edit]- Field of view, the area of a view imaged by a lens
- Visual field, the part of the field of view which can be perceived by the eye's retina
- Depth of field, the distance from before to beyond the subject that appears to be in focus (and likewise, field, in the context of depth, is the portion of a scene for which objects within its range are or would be in focus)
Physics
[edit]- Field (physics), a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
- Electric field, term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles
- Magnetic field, force produced by moving electric charges
- Electromagnetic field, combination of an electric field and magnetic field
- Gravitational field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point
Sociology
[edit]- Field (Bourdieu), a sociological term coined by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the system of objective relations constituted by various species of capital
- Sexual field, the systems of objective relations within collective sexual life
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Field (geography), a spatially dependent variable
- Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display
- Field coil, of an electric motor or generator
- Field experiment
- Field magnet, a magnet used to produce a magnetic field
- Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting
- Field of heliostats, an assembly of heliostats acting together
Other uses
[edit]- Field of study, a subdivision of an academic discipline
- Field of use, permissible operation by the licensee of a patent
- Track and field, a group of sports
See also
[edit]- The Field (disambiguation)
- Fields (disambiguation)
- The Fields (disambiguation)
- Fielding (disambiguation)
- Feeld, a location-based social discovery service application for iOS and Android
- Feild, surname
- All pages with titles beginning with Field
- All pages with titles containing Field