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domain

/dəʊˈmeɪn/

noun

Meaning

  • A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

    "The king ruled his domain harshly."

  • A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

    "Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services."

  • A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

  • The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.

  • The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.

  • A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

  • An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.

  • Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

  • A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

  • 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.

  • The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.

  • A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.

  • 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.

  • The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.

  • A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome

Synonyms

domain name,
hostname,
demesne,
domain of definition