Field Explained

Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes
Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport
Battlefield
Lawn, an area of mowed grass
Meadow, a grassland that is either natural or allowed to grow unmowed and ungrazed
Playing field, used for sports or games

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
- In flag terminology, the background of a flag
FIELD (magazine), a literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
Field (sculpture), by Anthony Gormley

Field department, the division of a political campaign tasked with organizing local volunteers and directly contacting voters
Field Enterprises, a defunct private holding company
- Field Communications, a division of Field Enterprises
Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago

Field, British Columbia, Canada
Field, Kentucky, United States
Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Field, Ontario, Canada
Field, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Field, South Australia
Field Hill, British Columbia, Canada
Field Island, Nunavut, Canada
Mount Field (disambiguation), mountains in Canada, the United States, Australia and Antarctica

Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields)
Column (database), sometimes referred to as 'field', with various meanings
Field-programmability, an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic

Field (mineral deposit), a mineral deposit containing valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration
Polje or karst field, a characteristic landform in karst topography

Field (mathematics), type of algebraic structure
- Number field, specific type of the above 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 of a binary relation, union of its domain and its range

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 (physics), a 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 (Bourdieu), a sociological term coined by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the system of objective relations constituted by various species of capital
Sexual field, the systems of objective relations within collective sexual life

Field (geography), a spatially dependent variable
Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display
Field coil, of an electric motor or generator
Field experiment
Field magnet, a magnet used to produce a magnetic field
Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting
Field of heliostats, an assembly of heliostats acting together