domain
- Noun. A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
- Noun. A sphere of influence.
- Noun. A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- Noun. (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
- Noun. (mathematics, topology) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
- Noun. (context, computing) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
- Noun. (context, computing) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a '''domain''''s domain names.
- Noun. (computing) A small magnetized area of a bubble memory storing one bit, a bubble.
- Noun. (biology, taxonomy) In the three-domain system, the highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in other taxonomic systems, a similarly high rank.
- Noun. (biology, taxonomy) In the three-domain system, one of three taxa at that rank: ''Bacteria'', ''Archaea'', or ''Eukaryota''.
- Noun. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function.
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