Meaning of field
Definition of field
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
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"
extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"