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domain

/dəʊˈmeɪn/ /doʊˈmeɪn/

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A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

Examples :

"The king ruled his domain harshly."

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A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

Examples :

"My sister's domain is interior design; she's incredibly talented at decorating homes. "

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A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

Examples :

"My son's schoolwork covers the domain of math and science. "

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The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.

Examples :

"The domain of the function representing Sarah's weekly allowance is all the days of the week. "

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The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.

Examples :

"The domain of the function "number of siblings" is the set of all whole numbers. "

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A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

Examples :

"The set of all possible grades in a math class forms a domain, because if two students both get a non-zero grade, their combined grade will never be zero. "

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An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.

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"The domain of the math problem included all positive numbers. "

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Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

Examples :

"The school's email domain is @schooldistrict.org, which includes all subdomains like @math.schooldistrict.org and @science.schooldistrict.org. "

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A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

Examples :

"The school's domain includes all the email addresses and websites under the @school.edu address. "

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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.

Examples :

"The school's computer domain includes all the student computers and the school's network. "

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The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.

Examples :

"The school's domain includes all the computers in the library and the classrooms. "

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A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.

Examples :

"The tiny magnetic domains in the hard drive allowed for efficient data storage. "

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Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.

Examples :

"The computer's bubble memory uses different domains to store student records. "

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(data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

Examples :

"The database's domain for student records specifies the data type for each field, like "student ID" (numeric) and "grade" (alphanumeric). "

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The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.

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"Scientists classify living things into domains, such as Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. "

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A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome

Examples :

"The protein's active domain is responsible for binding to the DNA molecule in the cell. "

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