Field
Encyclopedia

Places

  • Field, British Columbia
    Field, British Columbia
    Field is an unincorporated settlement of approximately 300 people located in the Kicking Horse River valley of southeastern British Columbia,Canada, within the confines of Yoho National Park....

    , Canada
  • Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  • Field, Ontario, Canada
  • Field Island
    Field Island
    Field Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Frobisher Bay, west of Waddell Bay, and southeast of Opera Glass Cape on the Hall Peninsula. Islands in the immediate vicinity include: Bruce Island to the...

    , Nunavut, Canada
  • Mount Field (disambiguation)

Expanses of open ground

  • Field (agriculture)
    Field (agriculture)
    In agriculture, the word field refers generally to an area of land enclosed or otherwise and used for agricultural purposes such as:* Cultivating crops* Usage as a paddock or, generally, an enclosure of livestock...

  • Playing field
    Playing field
    A playing field is a field used for playing sports or games. They are generally outdoors, but many large structures exist to enclose playing fields from bad weather. Generally, playing fields are wide expanses of grass, dirt or sand without many obstructions...

    , used for sports or games
  • Meadow
    Meadow
    A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants . The term is from Old English mædwe. In agriculture a meadow is grassland which is not grazed by domestic livestock but rather allowed to grow unchecked in order to make hay...

    , an untilled field
  • Aerodrome
    Aerodrome
    An aerodrome, airdrome or airfield is a term for any location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve cargo, passengers or neither...

    , an air field

Science and mathematics

  • Field (mathematics)
    Field (mathematics)
    In abstract algebra, a field is a commutative ring whose nonzero elements form a group under multiplication. As such it is an algebraic structure with notions of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, satisfying certain axioms...

    , type of algebraic structure
  • Field (physics)
    Field (physics)
    In physics, a field is a physical quantity associated with each point of spacetime. A field can be classified as a scalar field, a vector field, a spinor field, or a tensor field according to whether the value of the field at each point is a scalar, a vector, a spinor or, more generally, a tensor,...

    , mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
  • Field (geography)
    Field (geography)
    In the context of Spatial Analysis, Geographic Information Systems, and Geographic Information Science, the term field has been adopted from physics, in which it denotes a quantity that can be theoretically assigned to any point of space, such as temperature or density...

    , with a definition similar to that of physics but in a different context and using unique models and methods
  • Field (computer science)
    Field (computer science)
    In computer science, data that has several parts can be divided into fields. Relational databases arrange data as sets of database records, also called rows. Each record consists of several fields; the fields of all records form the columns....

    , a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields)
  • Field-programmability
    Field-programmability
    An electronic device or embedded system is said to be field-programmable or in-place programmable if its firmware can be modified "in the field," without disassembling the device or returning it to its manufacturer.This is often an extremely desirable feature, as it can reduce the cost and...

    , an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic
  • Field of sets, a mathematical structure of sets in an abstract space
  • Electric field
    Electric field
    In physics, an electric field surrounds electrically charged particles and time-varying magnetic fields. The electric field depicts the force exerted on other electrically charged objects by the electrically charged particle the field is surrounding...

    , term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles
  • Magnetic field
    Magnetic field
    A magnetic field is a mathematical description of the magnetic influence of electric currents and magnetic materials. The magnetic field at any given point is specified by both a direction and a magnitude ; as such it is a vector field.Technically, a magnetic field is a pseudo vector;...

    , force produced by moving electric charges
  • Electromagnetic field
    Electromagnetic field
    An electromagnetic field is a physical field produced by moving electrically charged objects. It affects the behavior of charged objects in the vicinity of the field. The electromagnetic field extends indefinitely throughout space and describes the electromagnetic interaction...

    , combination of an electric field and magnetic field
  • Field winding or field magnet, the stator
    Stator
    The stator is the stationary part of a rotor system, found in an electric generator, electric motor and biological rotors.Depending on the configuration of a spinning electromotive device the stator may act as the field magnet, interacting with the armature to create motion, or it may act as the...

     of an electric motor
  • Field of heliostat
    Heliostat
    A heliostat is a device that includes a mirror, usually a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space...

    s, an assembly of heliostats acting together

Sociology and politics

  • Field (Bourdieu)
    Field (Bourdieu)
    Field is one of the core concepts used by French social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. A field is a setting in which agents and their social positions are located. The position of each particular agent in the field is a result of interaction between the specific rules of the field, agent's habitus and...

    , a sociological term coined by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the system of objective relations constituted by various species of capital
  • Field Department, the division of a political campaign tasked with organizing local volunteers and directly contacting voters
  • Sexual field
    Sexual field
    A sexual field is an arena of social life whereby individuals compete for sexual status. The term builds on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of field and has been defined as a "set of interlocking institutions" and an "institutionalized matrix of relations" that confers status upon sexual actors based...

    , a term that describes systems of objective relations within collective sexual life

Other technical uses

  • Field (video)
    Field (video)
    In video, a field is one of the many still images which are displayed sequentially to create the impression of motion on the screen. Two fields comprise one video frame...

    , one half of a frame in an interlaced display
  • Field (heraldry)
    Field (heraldry)
    In heraldry, the background of the shield is called the field. The field is usually composed of one or more tinctures or furs. The field may be divided or may consist of a variegated pattern....

    , the background of a shield
  • Field, in flag terminology
    Flag terminology
    Flag terminology is a jargon used in vexillology, the study of flags, to describe precisely the parts, patterns, and other attributes of flags and their display.-Description of standard flag parts and terms:...

    , the background of a flag

Other

  • Field of study, a branch of knowledge
  • Field of view
    Field of view
    The field of view is the extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment....

    , the area of a view imaged by a lens
  • Field of use, the subject matter of a patent license limited to some but not all uses of the invention
  • Visual field
    Visual field
    The term visual field is sometimes used as a synonym to field of view, though they do not designate the same thing. The visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments", while 'field of view' "refers to the physical...

    , the part of the field of view which can be perceived by the eye's retina
  • Depth of field
    Depth of field
    In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image...

    , in photography, the distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus
  • Field Museum of Natural History
    Field Museum of Natural History
    The Field Museum of Natural History is located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex known as the Museum Campus Chicago...

    , in Chicago
  • FIELD (magazine)
    FIELD (magazine)
    FIELD magazine is a twice-yearly literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and focusing on contemporary poetry and poetics....

    , a literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
  • Field (sculpture)
    Field (sculpture)
    Field is a sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley. It consists of approx. 35,000 individual terracotta figures, each between 8 and 26cm high, installed on the floor of a room facing the viewer. The figures were sculpted in Cholula, Mexico by about 60 members of a Texca family of brickmakers,...

    , by Anthony Gormley

Businesses

  • Field Enterprises
    Field Enterprises
    Field Enterprises was a private holding company founded on August 31, 1944, by Marshall Field III and others whose main asset was the Chicago Sun. That same year the company acquired the book publishers Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books....

    , a defunct private holding company
    • Field Communications
      Field Communications
      Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News. The company owned independent television stations in the United States, with WFLD-TV in Chicago as its largest-market station....

      , a division of Field Enterprises
  • Field Records
    Field Records
    Field Records is a British, Nottingham-based independent record label featuring bands such as Ann Arbor, Karhide, Alright the Captain, Kasper rosa, LaFaro, Khuda, Public Relations Exercise, Princess, and Maybeshewill.The label is run by Tim Waterfield....

    , a record label

See also

  • Fields (disambiguation)
  • The Field (disambiguation)
    The Field (disambiguation)
    The Field is a 1965 play by John B. Keane.The Field can also refer to:*The Field , 1990 film based on the Keane play*The Fields , starring Cloris Leachman and Tara Reid...

  • Fielding (disambiguation)
  • Feild, surname
  • Feld
    Feld
    Feld is a surname and may refer to:* Bernard T. Feld* Fritz Feld* Jindřich Feld, Czech composer* Judy Feld Carr* Kenneth Feld* Marc Bolan * Zieg Feld* Dart Feld...

    , surname
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK