Domain has several meanings:

  • some kind of territory
  • synonymous with field, e.g. the domain of computer science
  • public domain, a body of works and knowledge without proprietary interest
  • domain of discourse in symbolic logic
  • eminent domain, the power of government to confiscate private property for public use
  • broadcast domain in computer networking
  • domain name, part of the name of a machine on the Internet
  • in mathematics a domain can be
    • the domain of a mathematical function
    • an ordered structure studied in domain theory
    • an integral domain and Euclidean domain, types of mathematical ring
  • in biology, a domain is a subdivision even larger than a kingdom
  • in biochemistry and protein science, a domain is an autonomously folding functional module of a protein
  • in physics a domain is a region of a solid inside which a property is uniform (for example magnetic domain in ferromagnetism)
  • application domain, the kind of uses a computer program or something else is used for

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