domain
/dəʊˈmeɪn/
noun/dəʊˈmeɪn/
/dəʊˈmeɪn/
Meaning
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Meaning 1 · noun
A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
“The king ruled his domain harshly.”
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Meaning 2 · noun
A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
“Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.”
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Meaning 3 · noun
A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
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Meaning 4 · noun
The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
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Meaning 5 · noun
The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
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Meaning 6 · noun
A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
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Meaning 7 · noun
An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
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Meaning 8 · noun
Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
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Meaning 9 · noun
A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
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Meaning 10 · noun
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.
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Meaning 11 · noun
The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
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Meaning 12 · noun
A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
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Meaning 13 · noun
Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
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Meaning 14 · noun
(data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
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Meaning 15 · noun
The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
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Meaning 16 · noun
A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome
How this word is used
- Everyday “The king ruled his domain harshly.”
- General “Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.”
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