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English Dictionary: domain	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for domain
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
domain n 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" Synonym(s): sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" Synonym(s): domain, demesne, land (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined Synonym(s): domain, domain of a function people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world" Synonym(s): world, domain the content of a particular field of knowledge Synonym(s): knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Domain \Domain"\, n. [F. domaine, OF. demaine, L. dominium, property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, owner. See {Dame}, and cf {Demesne}, {Dungeon}.] 1. Dominion; empire; authority. 2. 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. --E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. --J. C. Shairp. 3. Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. --Shenstone. 4. (Law) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. {Public domain}, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
domain 1. In the theory of functions, the set of argument values for which a {function} is defined. See {domain theory}. 2. A group of computers whose {hostnames} share a common suffix, the "domain name". The last component of this is the {top-level domain}. See {administrative domain}, {Domain Name System}, {fully qualified domain name}. 3. {Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network}. 4. A specific phase of the {software life cycle} in which a developer works. Domains define developers' and users' areas of responsibility and the scope of possible relationships between products. 5. The subject or market in which a piece of software is designed to work. (1997-12-26)