domain

Definitions

• A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
• A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
• A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
• (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
• (mathematics) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
• (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
• (mathematics) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
• (computing) Any Domain Name DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
• (computing) A collection of Domain Name DNS or DNS-like domain domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
• (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.
• (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
• (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
• (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
• (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
• (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
• (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome