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Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

Arts and media

Organizations

People

Places

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

Mathematics

  • Field (mathematics), a type of algebraic structure
    • Number field, a specific type of the above algebraic structure
  • Scalar field, assignment of a scalar to each point in a mathematical space
  • Spinor field, assignment of a spinor 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

Optics

  • 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
  • Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display

Physics

  • Field (physics), a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
    • Electric field, a term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles
    • Magnetic field, a force produced by moving electric charges
    • Electromagnetic field, the combination of electric and magnetic fields
    • Gravitational field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point

Sociology

  • 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

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