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- DictionaryField/fēld/
noun
- 1. an area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences: "a wheat field"
- 2. a particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest: "we talked to professionals in various fields"
verb
- 1. play as a fielder.
- 2. send out (a team or individual) to play in a game: "a high school that traditionally fielded mediocre teams"
adjective
- 1. carried out or working in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office: "field observations"
an area of study or activity: He's an expert in the field of biochemistry. field noun (IN RACE/BUSINESS) the people who are competing in a race, activity, or business: We lead the field in genetic research. a gas/oil field. an area of land containing gas or oil. a gravitational/magnetic field. an area affected by a particular physical force.
Definition of field noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. field. noun. OPAL W. /fiːld/ Idioms. area of land. [countable] an area of land in the country used for growing crops or keeping animals in, usually surrounded by a fence, etc. We had to walk across a ploughed field. in a field We camped in a field near the village.
In physics, a field is a physical quantity, represented by a scalar, vector, or tensor, that has a value for each point in space and time. [1] [2] [3] For example, on a weather map, the surface temperature is described by assigning a number to each point on the map; the temperature can be considered at a certain point in time or over some ...
Word Origin. See field in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: field. Definition of field verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A data field is a location for a predetermined type of data that — collectively with other data fields — describes the place it is stored. The most common example is a column in a data table that describes the row with which it intersects, and others include class variables in programming languages such as Java.
Definition of field verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. field. verb. /fild/ Verb Forms. candidate/team. [transitive] field somebody/something to provide a candidate, speaker, team, etc. to represent you in an election, a competition, etc. Each of the main parties fielded more than 300 candidates.
The mathematics (including "A field is a function that returns a value for a point in space") are the interface: they define for you exactly what you can expect from this object. The "what is it, really, when you get right down to it" is the implementation.
