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
  • 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

  • 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

People

Places

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

Geology

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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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See also

  • In the field: away from home, office, base or headquarters, as in:
    • Field agent, the kind of agent, officer or operative whose primary tasks take place outside the office or headquarters
    • Field slave, the sort of transatlantic slave who labored outdoors, in the plantation fields
  • Field experiment
  • The Field (disambiguation)
  • Fields (disambiguation)
  • The Fields (disambiguation)
  • Fielding (disambiguation)
  • Feeld, a location-based social discovery service application for iOS and Android
  • Feild, surname
  • Feld, surname
  • All pages with titles beginning with Field
  • All pages with titles containing Field

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