domain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *dem-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dṓmder.
Proto-Italic *domanos
Latin dominus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin dominiumder.
Old French demainebor.
Middle English demayne
English domain
From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). Doublet of demesne and dominium, and closely related to dominion and domino. See also dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon.
Inflected forms:
form: domains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
pos: noun
examples: The king ruled his domain harshly.
Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers.
Farmers account for just 1.5% of the British population, but the size of their domain – 71% of the country’s surface area is classified as farmland – has given them power over the public imagination.
A blinded hermit in oblivion, disgraced
Like Odysseus lost in Poseidon's endless domain
In a realm devoid ov solace, I roam
gloss: A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
pos: noun
examples: Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.
His domain is English history.
When examining studies that assess independent living and social skills—key areas of focus in adulthood for individuals with ASD—it is observed that most research evaluates only one of these domains, either activities of daily living or social functioning.
gloss: A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
pos: noun
examples: Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
gloss: The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
pos: noun
gloss: The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
pos: noun
gloss: An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
pos: noun
gloss: Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.
gloss: A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
pos: noun
gloss: A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
pos: noun
gloss: Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
pos: noun
examples: A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.
gloss: The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
pos: noun
gloss: A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome.
pos: noun
gloss: An area of more or less uniform mineralization.
pos: noun
Synonyms: domain of definition
Antonyms: range
codomain
Related words: DNS
dominate
dominion
domino
Derived words: antidomain
Bézout domain
bidomain
biodomain
chromodomain
cross-domain
cytodomain
data domain
Dedekind domain
didomain
domainal
domained
domainer
domain hack
domaining
domain-joined
domain kiting
domainless
domain logic
domain name
domain name server
domain name service
domain of convergence
domain of discourse
domainogram
domainome
domain-specific
domain-specific language
domain tasting
domain theory
domain wall
domainwide
ecodomain
ectodomain
eminent domain
endodomain
Euclidean domain
exodomain
ferroelectric domain
flavodomain
flexodomain
frequency domain
generic top-level domain
glycodomain
heterodomain
homeodomain
interdomain
intradomain
juxtadomain
macrodomain
megadomain
microdomain
mid-domain effect
minidomain
monodomain
multidomain
naked domain
nanodomain
Noetherian domain
nondomain
oncodomain
ordered integral domain
phosphodomain
polydomain
power domain
principal ideal domain
prodomain
protein domain
pseudodomain
public domain
second-level domain
superdomain
supradomain
synchronization domain
tetradomain
time domain
time-domain analysis
time-domain averaging
time-domain electromagnetic method
time domain electromagnetics
time-domain reflectometer
time-domain reflectometry
transdomain
unique factorization domain
value domain
vanity domain
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: definisieversameling
lang: Bulgarian
word: интерва́л на съществу́ване
roman: intervál na sǎštestvúvane
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 定義域 /定义域
roman: dìngyìyù
lang: Czech
word: definiční obor
lang: Danish
word: definitionsmængde
lang: Esperanto
word: fonta aro
lang: Estonian
word: määramispiirkond
lang: Finnish
word: määrittelyjoukko
lang: Finnish
word: määrittelyalue
lang: French
word: domaine de définition
lang: French
word: domaine
lang: German
word: Definitionsbereich
lang: German
word: Definitionsmenge
lang: Greek
word: πεδίο ορισμού
roman: pedío orismoú
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּחוּם
roman: tkhum
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּחוּם הַגְדָּרָה
roman: tkhúm hagdará
lang: Hungarian
word: értelmezési tartomány
lang: Icelandic
word: formengi
lang: Icelandic
word: frámengi
lang: Icelandic
word: skilgreiningarmengi
lang: Icelandic
word: óðal
lang: Italian
word: dominio
lang: Japanese
word: 定義域
roman: teigiiki
lang: Japanese
word: 始域
roman: shiiki
lang: Korean
word: 정의역
roman: jeong'uiyeok
lang: Norwegian
word: definisjonsområde
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: definisjonsmengde
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: definisjonsmengd
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: definisjonsmengde
lang: Occitan
word: domeni de definicion
lang: Occitan
word: domeni
lang: Iranian Persian
word: دامَنِه
roman: dâmane
lang: Polish
word: dziedzina
lang: Portuguese
word: domínio
lang: Romanian
word: domeniu
lang: Russian
word: о́бласть определе́ния
roman: óblastʹ opredelénija
lang: Spanish
word: dominio
lang: Swedish
word: definitionsmängd
lang: Tagalog
word: saklaw
lang: Vietnamese
word: tập xác định
lang: Vietnamese
word: miền xác định
lang: Finnish
word: verkkotunnus
lang: German
word: Domains
lang: German
word: Domänen
lang: Polish
word: domena
lang: Portuguese
word: domínio
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: àrainn-lìn