Field
Appearance
Field may refer to:
Expanses of open ground
- Polje, a type of field characteristic for Dinaric Karst
- Field (agriculture)
- Cornfield, a field of corn
- 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 Canada
Settlements in the United States
- Field, Kentucky
- Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Science and mathematics
- Field (mathematics), type of algebraic structure
- 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
- Field of sets, a mathematical structure of sets in an abstract space
- Field (physics), mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
- 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
- Gravitational field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point
- Field (geography), with a definition similar to that of physics but in a different context and using unique models and methods
- Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside of a laboratory, library or workplace setting
Engineering and computing
- Field coil or field magnet of an electric motor or generator.
- Field of heliostats, an assembly of heliostats acting together
- 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
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
- In decorative art, the main area of a decorated zone, often contained within a border, often the background for motifs
- Field (heraldry), the background of a shield
- Field, in flag terminology, the background of a flag
- Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display
Other
- Field of study, a subdivision of an academic discipline
- Field of use, the subject matter of a patent license limited to some but not all uses of the invention
- Field of view, the area of a view imaged by a lens
- Visual field, the part of the field of view which can be perceived by the eye's retina
- Depth of field, the distance from before to beyond the subject that appears to be in focus (and likewise, field, in the context of depth, is the portion of a scene for which objects within its range are or would 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
- In the field: outdoors and away from home, office, base or headquarters
- Field agent, the kind of agent, officer or operative whose primary tasks take place outside of the office or headquarters
- Field slave, the sort of transatlantic slave who labored outdoors, in the plantation fields
- Track and field, a group of sports