| domain | |
| 1. n. A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization. | |
| The king ruled his domain harshly. | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. A group of related items, topics, or subjects. | |
| 4. n. (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined. | |
| 5. n. (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined. | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero. | |
| (hyponyms, en, integral domain) | |
| 7. n. (mathematics, topology, analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers. | |
| 8. n. (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains. | |
| 9. n. (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains. | |
| 10. n. (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. | |
| 11. n. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names. | |
| 12. n. (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction. | |
| 13. n. (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory. | |
| 14. n. (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage. | |
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| 17. n. (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota. | |
| 18. n. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function. | |
