domain

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English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne, domino.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dəʊˈmeɪn/, /dəˈmeɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /doʊˈmeɪn/, /dəˈmeɪn/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dəʉˈmæɪn/, /dəˈmæɪn/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɖoˈmeːn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophone: demesne

Noun

domain (plural domains)

1. A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
2. A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

3. A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
4. (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
   1. (more generally, of a binary relation R between A and B) The set A; The subset of A consisting of elements a of A such that there exists an element b in B with (a,b) in R.
5. (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

   Hyponym: integral domain

6. (mathematics, topology, mathematical analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
8. (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
   • 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium [3]

     Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

9. (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
10. (computing) 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.
11. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
12. (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
13. (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
14. (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.
15. (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
16. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome.
17. (geology) An area of more or less uniform mineralization.

Usage notes

• (collection of information): Used in a context in which domain name services, or kindred services, are managed in a fashion that is integrated with the management of other computer and network related information.
• (collection of computers): Used in the same context as the collection of information domain sense.

Synonyms

• (geographic area): demesne
• (where a function is defined): domain of definition
• (collection of DNS names): domain name, hostname
• (taxonomic rank): dominium

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “domain of definition of a function”): range
• (antonym(s) of “domain of definition of a function”): codomain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Domain (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “domain”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “domain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Amidon, Imonda, daimon, domina

Indonesian

Etymology

From English domain, from Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). Doublet of dame.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /doˈmain/ [doˈma.ɪn]
• Rhymes: -ain
• Syllabification: do‧main

Noun

domain (plural domain-domain)

1. domain

   Synonyms: daerah, ranah, wilayah

Further reading

• “domain” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• domuin

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dubnis, a variant form of *dubnos (“world, deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubʰnós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoβ̃ɨnʲ]

Adjective

domain (comparative domnu)

1. deep

Declension

Derived terms

• domnae
• fudumain

Descendants

• Irish: domhain
• Manx: dowin
• Scottish Gaelic: domhainn

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “domain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈmein/ [d̪oˈmẽĩn]
• Rhymes: -ein
• Syllabification: do‧main

Noun

domain m (plural domains)

1. (Internet) domain