definition of the word field

From Old English feld, from Proto-Germanic; related to Latin planus and English floor.

• IPA: /fiːld/
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• Rhymes: -iːld

field (plural fields)

1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
2. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
3. The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
4. (physics) A region affected by a particular force.

   magnetic field

5. A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
6. (mathematics) A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element.

   The set of rational numbers, , is the prototypical field.

7. (sports) An area reserved for playing a game.

   soccer field

8. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

   oil field or oilfield

   gold field or goldfield

9. (heraldry) The background of the shield
10. (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.

• (course of study or domain of knowledge): area, domain, sphere
• (sports: area reserved for playing a game): course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitch (for soccer, rugby, cricket)

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