Meaning of field
Definition of field
(noun)
a
piece
of
land
cleared
of trees and
usually
enclosed; "he
planted
a
field
of wheat"
a
region
where a
battle
is
being
(or has been) fought; "they
made
a
tour
of Civil War battlefields"
somewhere
(away from a
studio
or
office
or
library
or laboratory) where
practical
work
is
done
or
data
is collected; "anthropologists do
much
of their
work
in the field"
a
branch
of knowledge; "in what
discipline
is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be
well
trained
in their subject"; "anthropology is the
study
of
human
beings"
the
space
around
a
radiating
body
within
which its
electromagnetic
oscillations can
exert
force
on
another
similar
body
not in
contact
with it
a
particular
kind
of
commercial
enterprise; "they are
outstanding
in their field"
a
particular
environment
or
walk
of life; "his
social
sphere is limited"; "it was a
closed
area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"
a
piece
of
land
prepared
for
playing
a game; "the
home
crowd
cheered when Princeton took the field"
extensive
tract
of
level
open
land; "they emerged from the
woods
onto a
vast
open
plain"; "he longed for the
fields
of his youth"
(mathematics) a set of
elements
such
that
addition
and
multiplication
are
commutative
and
associative
and
multiplication
is
distributive
over
addition
and
there
are two
elements
0 and 1; "the set of all
rational
numbers
is a field"
a
region
in which
active
military
operations
are in progress; "the
army
was in the
field
awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for
three
years"
all of the horses in a
particular
horse
race
all the competitors in a
particular
contest
or
sporting
event
a
geographic
region
(land or sea)
under
which something
valuable
is found; "the
diamond
fields
of South Africa"
(computer science) a set of one or
more
adjacent
characters comprising a
unit
of
information
the
area
that is
visible
(as
through
an
optical
instrument)
a
place
where planes
take
off and
land
(verb)
catch
or
pick
up (balls) in
baseball
or
cricket
play
as a
fielder
answer
adequately
or successfully; "The
lawyer
fielded all questions from the press"
select
(a
team
or
individual
player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a
young
new
quarterback
for the Rose Bowl"
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