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domain

doʊˈmeɪn
WordNet
Assignment of 5 livres. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, serial without number, on 1 November 1791.
Assignment of 5 livres. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, serial without number, on 1 November 1791.
  1. (n) domain
    the content of a particular field of knowledge
  2. (n) domain
    people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest "the Western world"
  3. (n) domain
    (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined
  4. (n) domain
    territory over which rule or control is exercised "his domain extended into Europe","he made it the law of the land"
  5. (n) domain
    a particular environment or walk of life "his social sphere is limited","it was a closed area of employment","he's out of my orbit"
Illustrations
Assignment of 125 livres. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 1083, 1793-1794.
Assignment of 125 livres. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 1083, 1793-1794.
French assignat of 50 sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines Nationaux, series 2772, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
French assignat of 50 sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines Nationaux, series 2772, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
View of Tre Fontane Abbey in Rome. In the domain of the abbey are three churches: the Chiesa di San Paolo alle Tre Fontane, the Chiesa di Santa Maria Scala Coeli and the Chiesa abbaziale dei Santi Anastasio e Vincenzo.
View of Tre Fontane Abbey in Rome. In the domain of the abbey are three churches: the Chiesa di San Paolo alle Tre Fontane, the Chiesa di Santa Maria Scala Coeli and the Chiesa abbaziale dei Santi Anastasio e Vincenzo.
French assignat of 10 sous. Put into circulation by the Domaines Nationaux, series 938, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
French assignat of 10 sous. Put into circulation by the Domaines Nationaux, series 938, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
French assignat of 15 sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines Nationaux, series 914, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
French assignat of 15 sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines Nationaux, series 914, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
Assignment of 10 livres. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 13317, according to the law of October 24, 1792.
Assignment of 10 livres. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 13317, according to the law of October 24, 1792.
French assignat worth fifteen sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 1238, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
French assignat worth fifteen sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 1238, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
French assignat worth fifteen sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 1244, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
French assignat worth fifteen sols. Put into circulation by the Domaines nationaux, series 1244, according to the law of 23 May 1793.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Domain
    (Math) a connected set of points, also called a region.
  2. Domain
    a particular environment or walk of life.
  3. Domain
    (Physics) a region within a ferromagnetic material, composed of a number of atoms whose magnetic poles are pointed in the same direction, and which may move together in a coordinated manner when disturbed, as by heating. The direction of polarity of adjacent domains may be different, but may be aligned by a strong external magnetic field.
  4. Domain
    (Computers) an address within the internet computer network, which may be a single computer, a network of computers, or one of a number of accounts on a multiuser computer. The domain specifies the location (host computer) to which communications on the internet are directed. Each domain has a corresponding 32-bit number usually represented by four numbers separated by periods, as 128.32.282.56. Each domain may also have an alphabetical name, usually composed of a name plus an extension separated by a period, as worldsoul.org; the alphabetical name is referred to as a domain name.
  5. Domain
    Dominion; empire; authority.
  6. Domain
    Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
  7. Domain
    (Law) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.
  8. Domain
    people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest.
  9. Domain
    (Math) the set of values which the independent variable of a function may take. Contrasted to range, which is the set of values taken by the dependent variable.
  10. Domain
    The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. "The domain of authentic history.", "The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges."
  11. Domain
    (Immunology) the three-dimensional structure within an immunoglobulin which is formed by one of the homology regions of a heavy or light chain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) domain
    Dominion; province of action; range or extent of authority: as, to trench on one's domain by interference.
  2. (n) domain
    The territory over which dominion is exercised; the territory ruled over by a sovereign, or under the government of a commonwealth: as, the domains of Great Britain.
  3. (n) domain
    An estate in land; landed property.
  4. (n) domain
    The land about the mansion-house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy.
  5. (n) domain
    In law, ownership of land; immediate or absolute ownership; permanent or ultimate ownership. In the last two senses the word coincides with demain, demesne.
  6. (n) domain
    The range or limits of any department of knowledge or sphere of action, or the scope of any particular subject: as, the domain of religion, science, art, letters, agriculture, commerce, etc.; the judicial domain.
  7. (n) domain
    In logic, the breadth, extension, circuit, or sphere of a notion.
  8. (n) domain
    In the United States, the lands owned by the federal government or by a State; the public lands held for sale or reserved for specific uses.
  9. (n) domain
    In mathematics: A set of numbers when the sums, differences, products, and quotients of any numbers in the set (excluding only the quotients of division by 0) always yield as results numbers belonging to the set.
  10. (n) domain
    The space within which a given function is developable in a series in powers of z–a: termed the domain of the point, z = adjective
  11. (n) domain
    In function-theory, the region of the z-plane within a circle about a as center with any radius less than the distance from a to the nearest critical point: called the domain of its center a. For a power series (that is, a series of ascending positive integral powers, a0 + a1x + a2 x + …) if there is a frontier value R such that when | x | ⟨ R there is absolute convergence but when | x | ⟩ R there is divergence, the open region (R) [points within a circle whose center is at O and radius R] is called the domain of the series.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Domain
    do-mān′ what one is master of or has dominion over: an estate: territory: ownership of land: the scope or range of any subject or sphere of knowledge
Quotations
Simone Weil
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
Albert Einstein
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Albert Einstein
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
Albert Einstein
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. domaine, OF. demaine, L. dominium, property, right of ownership, fr. dominus, master, owner. See Dame, and cf Demesne Dungeon

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr.,—L. dominium, dominus, a master.

Usage in the news

New multi-core machines offer an opportunity to scale up to much larger domains. aaai.org

With the success of local features in object recognition, feature-set representations are widely used in computer vision and related domains. aaai.org

Kestrel provides an automated target detection capability in both land and maritime domains. aviationtoday.com

RealNames hopes keywords will replace domain name addresses and 800 numbers in print and television advertising. nytimes.com

(AP) More than 100 domain names were seized in an international crackdown on websites that sell counterfeit merchandise, federal authorities said Monday, just in time for the biggest online shopping day of the year. 2.wsls.com

Authorities seize web domains involved in selling of counterfeit merchandise. usatoday.com

BUFFALO, N.Y.—Federal law enforcement authorities have announced the seizure of 132 domain names in several countries to stop them from selling counterfeit merchandise online. denverpost.com

Federal law enforcement authorities have announced the seizure of 132 domain names in several countries to stop them from selling counterfeit merchandise online. kxii.com

INTERVIEWS Hear Oren Ambarchi's 33-Minute Kraut -Psych-Noise-Rock Odyssey 'Sagittarian Domain'. spin.com

Find all wines by Domaine de la Tour du Bon. inespectator.com

The domain name is generally first-come first-served. forbes.com

More than 80 percent of domains with "olympics" in the name are fraudsters using a misspelling or merely the association to attract visitors, a Web firm has found. eweek.com

LISPs power in manipulating complex lists of lists has also made it the tool of choice for developing symbolic reasoning systems such as OPS5 and PROLOG (both of which have many commercial and public-domain implementations). eweek.com

There are a lot of free books out there that are part of the public domain. abclocal.go.com

I recently noticed excessive offline file caching during logon and logoff on a particular Windows XP domain machine (called PC1) at a customer's Windows Small Business Server 2003 site. indowsitpro.com

Usage in scientific papers

The domain inbetween Ec and ¯h/τe is known as the diffusive or Altshuler-Shklovskii domain. A third energy scale is the average level spacing ∆λ.
Chiral Random Matrix Model for Critical Statistics

Consider the tessellation of H2 by fundamental domains for the given F2 action, and truncate each fundamental domain by a closed horocycle of length 2 (as is possible by Theorem 1.2).
A norm on homology of surfaces and counting simple geodesics

The leading contribution to the low-frequency dynamics is then associated with two nearby such rare low-energy domain walls which allow the ordered domain between them to flip at a low but nonzero frequency.
Dynamics and transport in random quantum systems governed by strong-randomness fixed points

The zeroes of the magnetization profile simply denote the equilibrium positions of domain walls at T > 0, and the extra physics consists of additional domain walls added to the GS structure.
Ground states versus low-temperature equilibria in random field Ising chains

Existence of such a transform allows to define a map fu from the fundamental domain of P SL(2, ZZ)u to the fundamental domain of P SL(2, ZZ).
Random walks on hyperbolic groups and their Riemann surfaces

Usage in literature

There Penn received from the agent of the Duke of York, and in the presence of all the people, a formal surrender of all that fine domain. "The Witch of Salem" by John R. Musick

At Smyrna, Lieutenant Lynch left the "Supply," and went to Constantinople to obtain permission to enter the Turkish domains. "The Naval History of the United States" by Willis J. Abbot

Up to then, the counts had resided most of the time in the southern part of their possessions, where they had their richest domains. "Belgium" by Emile Cammaerts

To Virginia she was like an eagle, secure in his nest on the topmost pinnacle of a cliff, and looking forth upon his domain. "Virginia of Elk Creek Valley" by Mary Ellen Chase

Louis Hutin, King of France, emancipates all serfs within the royal domains on payment of a just surrender charge. "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07" by Various

In 1859 and 1860 the Commissioner of Indian affairs prepared a survey of the Cherokee domain. "The American Empire" by Scott Nearing

His fair domain was added to the British dominions. "Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)" by Thomas Babington Macaulay

The movement to limit the power of the popular majority was felt in the domain of state as well as national politics. "The Spirit of American Government" by J. Allen Smith

In France, especially in his own domains, he would not have hesitated. "The Saracen: Land of the Infidel" by Robert Shea

Add Provence to that, and he would have a domain stretching from the Pyrenees to Italy. "The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea

Usage in poetry
Till in Venland landing,
The domains of Thyri
He redeemed and rescued
From King Burislaf.
"But thou darest not venture
Through the Sound to Vendland,
My domains to rescue
From King Burislaf;
As near, with much enlarged estate,
To his domain he drew;
He chanc'd, before his castle gate,
A signal scene to view.
And slid into an easy vein,
The favorite picture of the year;
The grouse upon her lord’s domain—­
The salmon weir;
Man trespassed here; but Nature lost
No right of her domain;
She waited, and she brought the old
Wild beauty back again.
The ancient house of Erlingford
Stood midst a fair domain,
And Severn's ample waters near
Roll'd through the fertile plain.