Pronunciation Noun
domain (plural domains)
- 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.
- His domain is English history.
- A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
- (mathematics, set theory) 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.
- hyponyms en
- (mathematics, topology, analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
- (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
- 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium
- Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.
- 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium
- (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like 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.
- A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.
- (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
- (geographic area) demesne
- (where a function is defined) domain of definition
- (collection of DNS names) domain name, hostname
- French: domaine
- German: Domäne, Gebiet, Bezirk
- Italian: dominio
- Portuguese: domínio
- Russian: владе́ние
- Spanish: dominio
- French: domaine de définition, domaine
- German: Definitionsbereich, Definitionsmenge
- Italian: dominio
- Portuguese: domínio
- Russian: о́бласть определе́ния
- Spanish: dominio
- French: domaine
- German: Domain, Domäne
- Italian: dominio
- Portuguese: domínio
- Russian: доме́н
- Spanish: dominio
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