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Field


Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

  • Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes
  • Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport
  • Playing field, used for sports or games

Arts and media

  • 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

  • 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

  • Field (surname)
  • Field Cate (born 1997), American child actor

Places

  • 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

Computing

  • 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

Mathematics

  • Field (mathematics), a type of algebraic structure
    • Number field, a specific type of the above algebraic structure
  • Scalar field, assignment of a scalar to each point in a mathematical space
  • Spinor field, assignment of a spinor 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

  • 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
  • Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display

Physics

  • Field (physics), a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
    • Electric field, a term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles
    • Magnetic field, a force produced by moving electric charges
    • Electromagnetic field, the combination of electric and magnetic fields
    • Gravitational field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point

Sociology

  • 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

  • Field (geography), a spatially dependent variable
  • Field (mineral deposit), a mineral deposit containing valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration
  • Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting

Other uses

  • 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
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