Field

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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

• 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
• Field-programmability, an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic

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

• 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

Sports

• Pitch (sports field)

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

See also

• 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