Domain

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Domain may refer to:

General

• some kind of territory (country subdivision), such as a demesne or a realm
• a field of study
• public domain, a body of works and knowledge without proprietary interest
• eminent domain, the power of government to confiscate private property for public use

Places

• The Domain (Austin), a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, USA
• in several Commonwealth of Nations countries, the name for parkland made available for public use by the monarch or their representative, the Governor. Examples include:
  • The Domain, Sydney: a large open space near the central business district of Sydney, Australia
  • Kings Domain, Melbourne in Victoria, Australia
  • Auckland Domain: a large inner-city park in Auckland, New Zealand

Sciences

• domain (biology), a subdivision even larger than a kingdom
• protein domain, 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)
• atomic domain - a domain whose elements are classified as indivisible units
• domain knowledge, a specific expert knowledge valid for a pre-selected area of activity (e.g. surgery)
• problem domain, the area of expertise or application that needs to be examined to solve a problem.

Mathematics

• the domain of a function or relation
• an ordered structure studied in domain theory
• a domain (ring theory), such as
  • an integral domain
  • a Euclidean domain
• an open and connected set in topology
• domain of discourse in mathematical logic

Information Technology

• Domain name, a common network name under which a collection of network devices are organized (e.g., example.com)
• the Internet Domain Name System (DNS)
• a Windows Server domain, a centrally-managed group of computers using the Windows operating-system
• a broadcast domain in computer networking, a group of special purpose addresses to receive network announcements
• an application domain, the kinds of purposes for which users use a software system
• domain (software engineering), a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in that field
• a CLR application domain, a mechanism for separating executed applications (similar to a process)
• In Database Theory, a data domain is a set of all permitted values
• a workstation operating system called Domain/OS

Music

• Domain (album), the debut album by the British metal band Above All
• Domain (band), a German heavy metal band

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