Field

Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

• Field (agriculture)
• Playing field, used for sports or games
• Lawn, mowed grass field
• Meadow, an untilled field
• Aerodrome, an air field

People

• Field (surname)
• Field Cate, American child actor

Places

• Mount Field (disambiguation), mountains in Canada, the United States, Australia and Antarctica
• Field Hill, British Columbia, Canada
• Field Island, Nunavut, Canada

Settlements in the Canada

• Field, British Columbia
• Field, Ontario

Settlements in the United States

• Field, Kentucky
• Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Science and mathematics

• Field (mathematics), type of algebraic structure
• Field (physics), mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
• Field (geography), with a definition similar to that of physics but in a different context and using unique models and methods
• Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields)
• Field-programmability, 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, term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles
• Magnetic field, force produced by moving electric charges
• Electromagnetic field, combination of an electric field and magnetic field
• Field winding or field magnet, the stator of an electric motor
• Field of heliostats, an assembly of heliostats acting together
• Scalar field assignment of a scalar to each point in a mathematical space
• Tensor field assignment of a tensor to each point in a mathematical space
• Vector field assignment of a vector to each point in a mathematical space

Sociology and politics

• Field (Bourdieu), 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, a term that describes systems of objective relations within collective sexual life

Businesses

• Field Enterprises, a defunct private holding company
  • Field Communications, a division of Field Enterprises
• Field Records, a record label

Technical uses

• Field (heraldry), the background of a shield
• Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display
• Field, in flag terminology, the background of a flag

Other

• Field of study, a branch of knowledge
• Field of view, 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, the part of the field of view which can be perceived by the eye's retina
• Depth of field, in photography, the distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus
• Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago
• FIELD (magazine), a literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
• Field (sculpture), by Anthony Gormley

See also

• All pages beginning with "Field"
• All pages with titles containing "Field"
• Fields (disambiguation)
• The Field (disambiguation)
• Fielding (disambiguation)
• Feild, surname
• Feld, surname