Domain

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General

• some kind of territory (country subdivision), such as a demesne or a realm
• a field of study
• public domain
  Public domain
  
  File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
  , a body of works and knowledge without proprietary interest
• eminent domain
  Eminent domain
  
  Eminent domain , compulsory purchase , resumption/compulsory acquisition or expropriation in common law legal systems is the inherent power of the state to seize a citizen's Property, expropriation property, or seize a citizen's rights in property with due monetary compensation, but without the owner's consent....
  , the power of government to confiscate private property for public use

Places

• The Domain (Austin), a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, USA
• in several Commonwealth of Nations
  Commonwealth of Nations
  
  The Commonwealth of Nations, also known as the Commonwealth or the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-three independent member states....
   countries, the name for parkland made available for public use by the monarch or their representative, the Governor. Examples include:
• The Domain, Sydney
  The Domain, Sydney
  
  The Domain is a large open space in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the eastern edge of the Sydney central business district, near Woolloomooloo, New South Wales....
  : a large open space near the central business district of Sydney, Australia
• Kings Domain, Melbourne in Victoria, Australia
• Auckland Domain
  Auckland Domain
  
  The Auckland Domain is Auckland's oldest park, and at 75 hectares one of the largest in the city. Located in the central suburb of Grafton, New Zealand, the park lies mostly within the crater of the Pukekawa volcano.....
  : a large inner-city park in Auckland, New Zealand
• The Domain Tunnel, Melbourne: a tunnel that runs underneath the Yarra River
  Yarra River
  
  The Yarra River, originally known as Birrarung, is a river in central Victoria , Australia. The lower stretches of the river is where the city of Melbourne, Victoria was established in 1835 and today Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower reaches....
   and the Kings Domain in Victoria, Australia

Sciences

• domain (biology)
  Domain (biology)
  
  In Biology taxonomy, a domain is the highest taxonomic rank of organisms, higher than a Kingdom . According to the three-domain system of Carl Woese, introduced in 1990, the Tree of life consists of three domains: Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota....
  , a subdivision even larger than a kingdom
• protein domain
  Protein domain
  
  A protein domain is a part of protein sequence and tertiary structure that can biological evolution, function, and exist independently of the rest of the protein chain....
  , an autonomously folding functional module of a protein
• In physics, a domain is a region of a solid inside which a property is uniform (for example magnetic domain in ferromagnetism)
• atomic domain - a domain whose elements are classified as indivisible units
• domain knowledge
  Domain knowledge
  
  Most generally, domain knowledge is the knowledge which is valid and directly used for a pre-selected domain of human endeavor or an autonomous computer activity....
  , a specific expert knowledge valid for a pre-selected area of activity (for ex. nuclear plant engineering, negotiation methods, surgery) - it is domain-independent

Mathematics

• the domain (mathematics)
  Domain (mathematics)
  
  In mathematics, the domain of a given function is the set of "input" values for which the function is defined. For instance, the domain of cosine would be all real numbers, while the domain of the square root would be only numbers greater than or equal to 0 ....
   of a function or relation
• an ordered structure studied in domain theory
  Domain theory
  
  Domain theory is a branch of mathematics that studies special kinds of partially ordered sets commonly called domains. Consequently, domain theory can be considered as a branch of order theory....
  
• a domain (ring theory)
  Domain (ring theory)
  
  In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as ring theory, a domain is a ring with 0 ≠ 1 such that ab = 0 implies that either a = 0 or b = 0 ....
  , such as
• an integral domain
  Integral domain
  
  In abstract algebra, an integral domain is a commutative ring without zero divisors and with a multiplicative identity 1 not equal to 0, the additive identity....
  
• a Euclidean domain
  Euclidean domain
  
  In abstract algebra, a Euclidean domain is a type of Ring in which the Euclidean algorithm applies. Euclidean domains possess many important properties similar to the integers: for example, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic holds in any Euclidean domain....
  
• an open and connected set in topology
  Topology
  
  Topology is a major area of mathematics that has emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as those of space, dimension, shape, transformation and others....
  
• domain of discourse
  Domain of discourse
  
  The domain of discourse, sometimes called the universe of discourse, logical discourse, or simply discourse, is an analytic tool used in deductive logic, especially predicate logic....
   in mathematical logic

Information technology

• Domain name
  Domain name
  
  The term domain name has multiple related meanings:* A hostname that identifies a computer or computers on the Internet. These names appear as a component of a Web site's Uniform Resource Locator, e.g....
  , a common network name under which a collection of network devices that are organized (example.com, for example)
• the Internet Domain Name System
  Domain name system
  
  The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It associates various information with domain names assigned to such participants....
   (DNS)
• a Windows Server domain
  Windows Server domain
  
  A Windows Server domain is a Logical group of computers running versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that share a central directory database....
  , a centrally-managed group of computers using the Windows operating-system
• a broadcast domain
  Broadcast domain
  
  A broadcast domain is a logical division of a computer network, in which all node s can reach each other by broadcasting at the data link layer....
   in computer networking, a group of special purpose addresses intended and enabled to receive network announcements.
• an application domain
  Application domain
  
  A domain in software engineering is a set of related software systems that share common design features. Domains in this contexthave been defined as:...
  , the kinds of purposes for which users use a software system
• domain (software engineering)
  Domain (software engineering)
  
  A domain is a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software computer program constructed to solve a problem in the area of computer programming, known as domain engineering....
  , a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in that field
• a CLR application domain
  CLR application domain
  
  In the Common Language Runtime, an application domain is a mechanism used to isolate executed software applications from one another so that they do not affect each other....
  , a mechanism for separating executed applications (similar to a process)
• In Database Theory, a data domain
  Data domain
  
  In data management and database analysis, a data domain refers to all the unique values which a data element may contain. The rule for determining the domain boundary may be as simple as a data type with enumeration list of values....
   is a set of all permitted values
• a workstation operating system called Domain/OS
  Domain/OS
  
  Domain/OS is the operating system used by the Apollo/Domain line of workstations manufactured by Apollo Computer, Inc. during the late 1980s, as the successor to the one previously used, AEGIS....
  

Music

• Domain (album)
  Domain (album)
  
  Domain is the debut album of the British heavy metal band Above All. It was described as the closest thing to British hardcore at the time in 1996 on MTV's Headbangers Ball....
  , the debut album by the British metal band Above All
• Domain (band)
  Domain (band)
  
  Domain is a Germany power metal band....
  , a German heavy metal band