Background for domains

domains

/dəˈmeɪnz/

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

Examples :

"The king ruled his domain harshly."

property area geography politics government state

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A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

Examples :

"My grandfather is an expert in the domains of gardening and woodworking. "

area business science technology world industry

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A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

Examples :

"The library organizes its books into different domains, such as history, science, and fiction. "

area group item organization

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

Examples :

"In the graph of the square root function, the domains are all non-negative numbers, because you can't take the square root of a negative number and get a real number result. "

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

Examples :

"The function "square root" only works for positive numbers, so its domains are all positive numbers and zero. "

math computing function

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

Examples :

"In advanced mathematics, certain number systems, called domains, guarantee that multiplying two non-zero numbers will never result in 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.

Examples :

"The scientist studied the different domains of the insect's life cycle. "

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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 company's website belongs to the "example.com" domain, which includes all its subdomains like "products.example.com" and "support.example.com". "

internet computing technology

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

Examples :

"Google manages a vast network of domains, including google.com and all its associated subdomains like mail.google.com and drive.google.com. "

computing internet technology

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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 :

"Our school's computer network is divided into separate domains, like "students" and "teachers," to manage access to different files and resources. "

computing internet technology system

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

Examples :

"Many company domains were affected by the recent server outage, preventing employees from accessing their email and files. "

computing internet technology system

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

Examples :

"The textbook explained that a magnet's strength depends on how well its tiny domains, each a region with its own magnetic alignment, are all pointing in the same direction. "

physics material

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

Examples :

"The bubble memory stored data by changing the magnetic polarity of tiny domains within the material. "

technology electronics computing machine device

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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 administrator carefully defined the domains for each field, specifying that "Age" should be a number between 0 and 120 and "Name" should be text with a maximum of 50 characters. "

computing technology internet technical system info electronics

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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.

Examples :

"Scientists classify all living things into three main domains: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryota. "

organism biology science ecology

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

Examples :

"Each protein's unique function is determined by the specific arrangement of its functional domains. "

biology biochemistry medicine anatomy part structure function