DOMAIN

'Domain' has several meanings:

Contents

General

Places

Sciences

Mathematics

Information technology

Music

General

★ some kind of territory, such as (for example) a demesne or a realm

★ synonymous with a metaphorical field, e.g. "the domain of computer science"

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★ atomic domain - a domain whose elements are classified as indivisible units

★ a field of study

★ public domain, a body of works and knowledge without proprietary interest

★ eminent domain, the power of government to confiscate private property for public use

Places

★ The Domain, a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, USA

★ in several Commonwealth countries, the name for parkland made available for public use by the monarch or their representative, the Governor. Examples include:

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★ The Domain, Sydney: a large open space near the central business district of Sydney, Australia

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★ Kings Domain, Melbourne: in Victoria, Australia

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★ The Domain Tunnel, Melbourne: a tunnel that runs underneath the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia

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★ Queens Domain, Hobart: in Tasmania, Australia

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★ Auckland Domain: a large inner-city park in Auckland, New Zealand containing an ancient volcano and the War Memorial Museum

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★ Throughout New Zealand a ''Town Domain'' is typically a public sport area administered by a ''Domain Board''.

Sciences

★ domain (biology), a subdivision even larger than a kingdom

★ protein domain, an autonomously folding functional module of a protein

★ domain (physics), a region of a solid inside which a property is uniform (for example magnetic domain in ferromagnetism)

Mathematics

In mathematics ''domain'' can refer to:

★ the domain of a function

★ one of the domains of a relation

★ an ordered structure studied in domain theory

★ a ring-theoretic domain, an integral domain or a Euclidean domain — types of ring

★ an open and connected set

★ domain of discourse in symbolic logic

Information technology

In information technology, the term ''domain'' can refer to:

★ a machine or virtual host on the Internet; the name of a domain (the "domain name") can be confused with the domain itself.

★ a Windows Server domain, a centrally-managed group of computers using the Windows operating-system

★ a broadcast domain in computer networking

★ an application domain - the kinds of purposes for which users use a software system

★ a software engineering domain - a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in that field. See also domain-specific programming languages.

★ a CLR application domain, a mechanism for separating executed applications (similar to a process)

★ In Database Theory, a data domain is a set of all permitted atomic values.

★ a workstation operating system called Domain/OS.

★ a group of computers on a network that share a common directory or storage locations.

Music

★ Domain is the debut album by the British metal band Above All.

★ Domain is a German heavy metal band